Model train guides and notes from the build
How to plan, build and run a model railway in Traluno, ideas that carry over to a real layout, and the engineering notes behind the game.
A Free Train Set Game in Your Browser
Traluno is a free train set game in a browser tab: lay track, run trains, build a town and ride in the cab. What is free, what costs money, how to start.
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Running trains · 6 min read
Take a Cab Ride on Your Own Layout
Ride the front of any train, a car, a carousel horse or a ferris gondola in Traluno, record the clip, take clean screenshots and save camera views.
Running trains · 8 min read
Model Train Control Panel: Trains and Switches
How to drive each train and throw each switch from Traluno's Control windows, why a switch under a train waits, and how hold differs from emergency stop.
Layouts & track plans · 7 min read
From One Model Train Table to Four
Every Traluno layout starts on one 3 m by 1.6 m model train table. How extra tables join it, the shapes they make, and how that compares with a 4x8.
Scenery & buildings · 7 min read
A Garden Railway, a Cellar or a Hobby Room
A garden railway usually means large-scale track laid in the garden itself. What Traluno's garden room is instead, and how to choose between its four rooms.
Scenery & buildings · 9 min read
Model Train Buildings That Light Up at Night
A tour of the model train buildings in Traluno's catalogue: what each category is for on a layout, which ones light up after dark, and what the paid ones cost.
Scale & geometry · 8 min read
Model Train Scales Explained: HO, N, OO and O
HO scale is 1:87 on 16.5 mm track. Every common model train scale from Z to G in one table, HO against N for a first layout, and how Traluno uses HO.
Scenery & buildings · 9 min read
Model Train Scenery Ideas for a Small Layout
Seven model train scenery ideas for one table: terrain paint, a tunnelled mountain, a harbour, a farm, a fair, a town and a tree line, with a tip for each.
Layouts & track plans · 10 min read
Model Train Track Plans for One Table
Six model train track plans drawn cell by cell on one 3 m by 1.6 m table: oval, passing loop, figure eight, yard, out-and-back and dogbone.
Layouts & track plans · 6 min read
Before You Open a Model Train Layout Planner
A model train layout planner gets the geometry exact. Try the shape, the trains and the view first, in minutes: a practical process using both.
Play · 6 min read
Share Your Layout in the Gallery
How to publish a Traluno layout to the public gallery, take the picture for its card, see what visitors can do, and make the layout private again.
Running trains · 6 min read
A Model Train Turntable and Its Roundhouse
What turntables and roundhouses were for, and how Traluno's pair works: a turning bridge with its own engine, curved approach roads, and where to put them.
Behind the build · 9 min read
WebMCP in Practice: 32 Tools for a Model Railway
How Traluno turned a browser game into 32 WebMCP tools for AI agents, the three rules that keep them safe, and the port when the draft moved the API.