Click on the links at left to download the image sized appropriately for your computer screen. A General Electric ES44AC leads an eastbound coal train in Furnace Creek Canyon on Eric Brooman’s HO scale Utah Belt. Modern motive power is one of the many recent developments of the ever-evolving UB. This month you can use […]
Take your next layout to the next level with this free 15-page PDF filled with design concepts. In this free download we cover: Layout schematics and how to think of your track plan as a railroad. Effective and efficient layout shapes. Sectional layouts and building your railroad so you can take it with you. And […]
Get computer desktop wallpaper from all 10 layouts featured in this Model Railroader special issue. Great Model Railroads 2019 features 10 spectacular model train layouts in HO, N, and O scales. In this Model Railroader special issue you’ll see a variety of model railroading themes, settings, and eras. As an online bonus, download images from […]
Trains Magazine · Conversations with Brian Solomon, Episode 39 Railroad author and photographer Brian Solomon produces this exclusive biweekly podcast for Trains Magazine. You can catch his column monthly in the magazine or his daily railroad photography blog at briansolomon.com/trackingthelight. Conversations with Brian Solomon, Episode 38 We’re back on the railfan track this week with […]
Click on the links at left to download the image sized appropriately for your computer screen A pair of well-worn Alcos waits in the early morning light for their next assignments at White Pass Landing on Kenny Ravenscroft’s HO scale Pilar Valley Ry. The FA-1 was made in Brazil by Fratesch, and the RSC-2 is […]
Click on the links at left to download the image sized for your screen. A Boston & Maine passenger train races by the trawler Lily on Sam Novello’s HO scale model railroad. This month you can download this image to use as a background on your computer screen. Click on the links below to get […]
Click on the links at left to download this image size appropriately for your computer screen. Don Janes Rutland RS-1 no. 405 has finished its day’s work on the local and is hustling back to North Bennington on Don Janes’ HO scale Green Mountain Division. Click on the links below to download the image sized […]
Click on the links at left to download this image sized appropriately for your computer screen. Pennsylvania RR class I1 no. 4471 switches the Atlas Coal tipple at Atlasburg, Pa., on Curt LaRue’s HO scale Burgetts Branch, PRR Panhandle Division. Click on the links below to download the image sized appropriately for your computer screen. […]
Click on the links at left to download the image sized for your computer screen. It’s early June in Washington, and the Great Northern’s Fast Mail is running late on Lee Marsh’s HO scale layout. Click on the links below to download the image sized appropriately for your computer screen. Download the 1600 x 900 […]
Click on the links at left to download this image sized appropriately for your computer screen. On a late fall afternoon, a New York Central Niagara departs Ellison with an express while a Pennsylvania RR E6 Atlantic picks up a cut of cars. Paul Kahne shot the photo on Lee Gasparik’s O scale Pennsylvania & […]
Whether you want to know how to keep your garden railway switches free of debris or a simple method to catch tiny track screws, this booklet contains a wealth of information. Some of the tips inside include: an easy way to simulate old, rusting enamel signs how to make translucent “glass” what to use for […]
A decade ago, Dick Christianson, the founding editor of Classic Toy Trains, and I began work on what became the O gauge Lionel Lines/Santa Fe layout. With help from CTT staff members, who dutifully ventured to Dick’s suburban basement every Tuesday night, we spent countless hours planning, thinking, changing our minds, and making false starts […]
