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Designing and setting up a removable staging cassette

This video demonstrates how Thomas Klimoski designed and set up a removable staging cassette on his Georgia Northeastern model railroad. […]

MRVP Layout Visit: Michael Schrier’s O gauge layout

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MR Video Plus subscribers will get to enjoy the highly detailed scenes on Michael Schrier’s fabulous O gauge (3-rail) layout. One look at the expansive urban and industrial sites on this extraordinary 40 x 50-foot display, and you’ll be hard pressed to call […]

MRVP Layout Visit: Michael Schrier’s O gauge layout

Scale conversion chart for large-scale modelers

Use this handy chart to convert your drawings to another scale. Download our PDF and start building! […]

Big Boy versus Allegheny

This C&O 2-6-6-6 strains mightily to get her 70 loads of eastbound coal moving at Thurmond, W. Va., in 1956. The Balky 1624 had slipped down, then cut off and run ahead to put down sand, and is now trying again. A full third of her tremendous engine weight rests on her lead and trailing […]

Where to find Big Boy locomotives

With clouds overhead mimicking steam, Big Boy No. 4004 sleeps in October 2013 at Cheyenne’s Holliday Park, just a few blocks from UP rails. Jim Wrinn No. 4004 • Holliday Park, Cheyenne, Wyo. BUILDER’S DATE: September 1941 SERIAL NUMBER: 69575 HISTORY: The fifth Big Boy constructed seems to have had an uneventful career. LIFETIME MILEAGE: […]

Helper locomotive crews

On Aug. 6, 2012, a single Illinois Central manned helper locomotive brings up the rear of a southbound Canadian National intermodal train working up Byron Hill on the Waukesha Subdivision near Byron, Wis. Tom Danneman Q How do locomotive engineers know they are doing equal work on trains equipped with manned helpers? – Robert A. […]

Coast Daylight eastbound at Guadalupe, Calif.

Train 98, the eastbound Coast Daylight, storms through Guadalupe Calif. in the Fall of 1954. Video by Brian Moore. […]

Operating the Santa Cruz Northern, Part 1

This series covers the operations of Jim Providenza’s Santa Cruz Northern model railroad. In this first installment, we will take a tour of the layout and take a look at the operations of Train #271 the Westbound Drag freight. […]

Southern Pacific AC-5 Cab Forward at Skykomish

Southern Pacific AC-5 Cab Forward at Skykomish: By accident, I have a car about 2/3rds into the train where it sounds like a prototypical flat wheel on one of the cars. The light at the back top of the engine was for the fireman to check, at night, the exhaust to see how efficient his […]