Take one EM-1 add loaded coal cars then add one more. Scene 1 leaving yard, Scene 2 rolling in open country, Scene 3 rolling through town. Ed Lorence shot this video on his HO scale layout. […]
The mighty EM-1
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Remembering Pennsylvania Railroad freight trains
All this month — January 2020 — Classic Trains editors are celebrating the heritage, history, and images of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Please enjoy this photo gallery of images from the David P. Morgan Library archives at Kalmbach Media that include Pennsy diesel- and steam-powered freight trains through time. You might also enjoy this PRR history […]
Louisville & Nashville – Image Gallery
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Lionel O gauge Legacy A6 Atlantic Illinois central No. 1003 video
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B&O class Q3 no. 4500 the first!
B&O Q3 4500 special was the first Q3 delivered to the B&O on July 4th 1918, Scene 1 roaring through town, scene 2 slowing for a yellow board, scene 3 arriving at the destination. Video by Edward Lorence […]
B&O Pacific 4-6-2 Express
Follow B&O no. 5213, a 4-6-2 Pacific, as it leads the express train ! Video by Ed Lorence […]
The mighty EM-1
Take one EM-1 add loaded coal cars then add one more. Scene 1 leaving yard, Scene 2 rolling in open country, Scene 3 rolling through town. Ed Lorence shot this video on his HO scale layout. […]
Basics of car cards and waybills for model railroad operation part 2
To apply the car-card-and-waybill freight-car routing system I described in part 1 takes more than just the two basic forms. The first form is the car card identifying each freight car with a pocket to hold the other form, a 4-step waybill. The pocket and waybill are sized so that only one of the waybill’s […]
Basics of car cards and waybills for model railroad operation part 1
One of the most widely used model railroad car-routing systems is an identification card for each car with a pocket to hold a waybill naming a destination. It’s a flexible and versatile method that’s easy to set up, use, and modify as you go along. It’s so common that it will probably be familiar to […]
Enter the Micro-Mark Model Challenge
Scientific HO scale rural farm structure kits from Micro-Mark For the second annual Micro-Mark Model Challenge, build any Scientific model kit, either on its own, with other Scientific model kits, in a diorama, on a railroad layout…the choice is yours…as long as a Scientific kit is featured. The winner will receive a $1,000.00 gift certificate […]
Basics of car cards and waybills for model railroad operation part 3
The switch crew in Woodsriver Yard on Paul Dolkos’ old Boston & Maine layout sorted cars according to waybill information to make up several different trains, pickups for trains passing through, and cuts for delivery to Woodsriver industries. Paul Dolkos The car-card-and-waybill freight-car routing system I’ve described in my previous two columns gives you all […]
New model railroad products for the week of January 16, 2020
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP40-2 diesel locomotive. Boston & Maine (as-delivered scheme in two road numbers, all blue and black repaint in one number), Canadian Pacific (non-standard simplified repaint in one number, with gold beaver herald and red-and-white frame stripe in two numbers), Norfolk Southern (black and white, three numbers), Southern Pacific (scarlet and […]
