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Work progresses on Steve Tello’s Boston & Maine Lowell NH Line. Middlesex Junction was a service yard for B&M passenger cars and locomotive up through the early 1960s. Steve is modeling a compressed version of Middlesex, including 4 arrival/departure tracks, a buggy track, coal conveyor (B&M tore down the Coal Tower in the early ’50s), […]
Using an Arduino IR LED and Phototransistor, we detect an approaching train and start the level crossing flashers. Gates and bells are coming soon! […]
Christopher and his wife, Barbara. They both worked at Lionel. In tribute to the late William Christopher, we’re sharing the story of him that ran in CTT in 1994. […]
Erie RS2 904 clatters into the Lackawanna’s Hoboken Terminal with a Main Line local in 1956. Richard H. Young Youth is wasted on young people, so the saying goes. Kids don’t have the … well … maturity to know what’s special in their world. Watch the crowds at Disneyland. It’s the adults who are agog […]
O GAUGE RED OWL GROCERY STORE FROM MENARDS Price: $99.99 (no. 279-3472) Features: Wood, cardstock, and plastic construction. Illumination for sides, interior, signage, and security lamps. This jumbo O gauge structure from Menards will probably be a hit with those who live, or lived, in the Upper Midwest: A Red Owl grocery store. Red Owl […]
O gauge CB&Q USRA 4-6-2 Pacific from MTH Electric Trains Price: $449.95 (no. 30-1681-1) Min Curve: O-31 Cmd Low: 3.4 smph Cnv Low: 5.2 smph High: 61.4 smph Drawbar pull: 1 lb., 2 oz. Features: Can-style motor, ProtoSound 3.0 command and sound system, smoke, coil couplers Current production road names: Alaska RR, Burlington Route, Great […]
Extra tall fences (seen on the overpass in the background) often protect electrified lines from road debris. Michael S. Murray Q I have driven over the Northeast Corridor and have seen guardrails on the bridge get higher over the tracks themselves. Why is that? – Dan Wescott, Louisburg, N.C. A The primary reason higher barriers […]
Download the drawings for this project here. […]
Photo 1 USGS topographic map of Wheaton, Kansas. Photo 2 Every little town along this railroad and most others in the Midwest has a “Railroad St.” or “Railroad Ave.” Photo 3 The Google Earth view of the Kansas Central line east of Olsburg, Kansas. Photo 4 Kansas Central route highlighted in red. The arrow shows […]
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Photo 1 Dwarf Scots pine on the author’s current garden railroad. Don Parker Photo 2 Lynn’s Golden Hinoki false cypress on Marc Langan’s Mulberry Creek Railroad. Don Parker Photo 3 Blue Feathers false cypress. Photo taken at Mulberry Creek Herb Farm and Miniatures. Don Parker Photo 4 Chirimen false cypress. Photo taken at Mulberry Creek […]
1 Marcus and Vanessa Kollmann model European railroads on their Landschaft Gartenbahn. Living scenery wraps around the structures and cozies up to the track for a lush landscape. At left, a cut-leaf Japanese maple (Acer palmatum ‘Dissectum’, Zones 5-9) stretches over the street for bright, dappled lighting. After winter, the Kollmanns shape this tree while […]
