The 2017 National Train Show was held August 4-6 in Orlando. Here are some of the items that were on display at the show. You’ll find additional model railroading products in part 2 of the 2017 National Train Show report. You can also watch video highlights of the show. Athearn Trains HO scale Altoona, Pa.,-rebuilt […]
HO scale freight cars Southern Pacific and Union Pacific class S-40-2 36’-6” stockcar with pressed steel underframe. Cast-urethane kit in multiple versions. Side castings with tow staple/jacking pads, one-piece roof casting, decals, and Yarmouth etched bronze Carmer uncoupling levers and side sill steps. Can be modeled with side doors open or closed. Southern Pacific kit […]
HO scale freight cars Assorted freight car kits. Rock Island 40-foot steel boxcar in green and Boxcar Red (single car, $17.98; two-pack, $34.98). 36-foot double-sheathed boxcar with straight underframe and steel or wood ends (painted Boxcar Red with 1940s-style data, Mineral Red with early style data, and Oxide Red with early style data), $17.98 each. […]
Model Railroader magazine and MR Video Plus bring you an exclusive look at the 2017 National Train Show in Orlando, Fla. In part 1 you’ll see exciting new locomotives, rolling stock, and other model train products from Walthers, Athearn, MTH, Atlas, East Coast Circuits, and Peco. Model Railroad Planning editor Tony Koester also provides highlights […]
SURVEYORS OF THE SEA LANES: Menards has bolstered its O gauge product line with two more flatcars with helicopter loads. The no. 279-3398 is a U.S. Navy flatcar with Navy MH60R anti-submarine warfare helicopter onboard. The no. 29-3396 U.S. Coast Guard flatcar with general-purpose MH65 rescue and patrol helicopter will handle operations closer to shore. […]
Rapido Trains HO scale General Motors Diesel Division SW1200RS diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives General Motors Diesel Division SW1200RS diesel locomotive. Canadian National (“wet noodle” herald with black cab and red/orange cab, and North America scheme with small “wet noodle” herald) and Canadian Pacific (block and script lettering, Action Red with 5” stripes and Multimark […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD50 diesel locomotive. Chessie System (Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks), Chicago & North Western, CSX (gray and blue in one number, Chessie System patchout in three numbers), Erie Lackawanna (fictional paint scheme, three numbers), Norfolk Southern, Northern Pacific (fictional paint scheme, three numbers), and Union Pacific. Four numbers per scheme […]
HO scale locomotives Alco RS-32 and RS-36 diesel locomotives. New paint schemes. RS-32: Central Vermont (one road number) and Lamoille Valley (one number). RS-36: Apache Ry. (American Revolution Bicentennial, three numbers); Livonia, Avon & Lakeville (one number); National Railways of Mexico (two numbers); Ontario Central (one number); and Norfolk & Western (two numbers). New numbers. […]
SMART DEVICE CONTROL: MTH Electric Trains 2017 starter set line now comes ready to run with your Apple or Android smartphone or Apple iPad. Outfits will come with a 75-watt 5 amp power supply and a DCS TIU-1 receiver with Wi-Fi. Just download the free MTH DCS app and you are ready to roll. The […]
HO scale locomotives Illinois Central Paducah, Ky.,-rebuilt GP10 diesel locomotive. New paint schemes: Arizona & Eastern (Genesee & Wyoming scheme, two road numbers), Bloomer Line (two numbers), Carlton Trail Ry. (four numbers), Central Kansas Ry. (Okanagan Valley Ry. patchout, two numbers), Gulf & Mississippi (one number), Hudson Bay Ry. (one number), Louisiana & Delta (Genesee […]
Chris Comport, 68, died on May 4 in Wisconsin. Chris wrote several stories for Model Railroader and other hobby magazines and was a professional model builder who built client layouts while working with Raildreams Inc. Chris also worked for A.I.M. Products (now part of Monroe Models) and offered his own line of model railroad structures […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP39-2 diesel locomotive. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Burlington Northern (two road numbers); BNSF Ry. (Burlington Northern patchout in two numbers); Delaware & Hudson (blue and yellow and blue with yellow nose in two numbers each); Missouri-Kansas-Texas; and Union Pacific. Four numbers per scheme unless noted. Direct-current model, $179.98; with […]
