Model Rail Products, Handcrafted Items and Business Services

DCC Control and Programming

Controlling model railroad operation increasingly uses DCC, and the SPROG DCC device is the ideal solution for programming and maintaining your fleet of DCC-equipped locomotives, in any scale from Z to G!
With the industry's most comprehensive support for decoders from all the leading manufacturers, SPROG II, SPROG3 and Pi-SPROG One provide a one-stop source for setting up and running any DCC locomotives.

See the SPROG DCC full details, and to order your DCC programming solution. DCC Programming and Control starting under $105!

DCC Decoder Installation

Installation of the decoders into many locomotives is now a straightforward process, with more "drop in" decoder models available from several vendors. For those more unusual installations, or just to take the task on for you, we offer decoder installation as a service.
Follow the link to find out more, or just to see some step-by-step examples as well.

Speedometer Solutions

Running your trains can significantly benefit from understanding how fast they are going,
and also from matching the speeds of your many different locos in order to be able to run them together.

We offer options for tracking the speed of your locos, running on the layout or during setup, and provide support and assistance when you need to get the very best out of your fleet.

Click here to see the simplest choices in model rail speed measurement.

Scale Signal Systems

We are pleased to now offer the Scale Signal Systems products. See below for some more information, and our direct online purchase information is coming soon.

Scale Signal Systems manufactures Modular Signal System (MSS) components and other handy DCC products.
With these products you can animate your Layout or Free-mo Module with prototype signals the easy way.
Our components (Signal Drivers, Detectors, Crossover Breakout, Straight Break Out, and Cascade boards) are the smart way to add MSS 2.0 signal animation to a new or existing layout or free-mo module. We also manufacture a signal plug that allows you to quickly and safely store signals when transporting modules.
Check out the Scale Signal Systems web site for more information.

Track Power Indicator

Our custom track Power Indicator is designed to clip onto the rails of any scale from O to Z, and provide an instant indication of the presence of power.
Showing a Red aspect for positive power on the flexible lead, green for negative, and orange for DCC, this can help show that the power is present, and aid in diagnosing strange track power behavior, troublesome locos, etc.

N Scale Locomotives

Now available from us online, a small switcher loco, and a small chassis for kit building.

This little switcher has a Japanese heritage, but would not be out of place - with appropriate paint and logos - in many industrial yards anywhere in the world.
The switcher comes painted as shown, and with a number of separate detail parts, such as the smokestack, horn and railings seen here, for the modeler to apply as you choose.
Including a powerful motor with gear drive to the axle, and directional LED lights, this is a useful and surprisingly powerful little unit.
It comes unlettered, and the "GW" and "12" on this example are just to illustrate potential customization that you might make.

The basic power chassis used in the switcher is also available separately - with different LED lights fitted - here, in very limited quantities.

Each unit includes 12v motor, directional forward and reverse LED lights, all wheel pickup and impressively powerful traction for such a small and light unit.

To buy either of these little units, please see our Online Store.

What is N Scale

Model railroads come in many sizes, and at the BBM Group we specialize in N Scale, with a track gauge of Nine millimetres.

The second most popular size in model rail today, "N" trains run on track with a gauge of 9mm, available from many vendors in ready-to-run and customizable form.
However, strangely enough, around the world there are three different sizes or scales in use for "N" gauge! In the USA and related markets, and in most of Europe, the scale is 1 to 160, while in Japan they adopted 1 to 152, and in the UK it is 1 to 148.