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Click on the links to the left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. Westbound Burlington Northern train No. 171 glides through Feather River Canyon on Jim Pendley’s HO scale Western Pacific layout. This month registered members can use the image as a computer screen background. Click on the links to download […]
A Trenitalia local blasts out of one tunnel, and prepares to pick up waiting tourists at the platform in another, in the Cinque Terre community of Vernazza, Italy, in 2007. Photo by David Lassen […]
Not looking like a Canadian Pacific train, empty frac sand train No. 691 rolls through Bangor toward Oakdale, Wis., with three Union Pacific SD70ACes leading the charge on Jan. 25, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]
Walthers HO scale well car A Gunderson rebuilt all-purpose 53-foot well car is the first intermodal car in the WalthersProto lineup. The model features die-cast metal and plastic construction, wire grab irons, and etched-metal walkways nested in plastic frames. The Gunderson 53-foot well cars were built in the 1990s as 48-foot cars. As 40- and […]
Kato N scale ACS-64 with Amfleet I cars The first prototype Cities Sprinter locomotives have been on Amtrak property for little more than two years, and now N scale modelers can get their hands on one from Kato. Also known as the ACS-64, these locomotives will pull all non-Acela trains on Amtrak’s electrified Northeast Corridor. […]
An Iowa Pacific excursion makes its way toward Muscoda, Wis., along the jointed rail of Wisconsin & Southern’s Prairie Subdivision on June 21, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]
Railroads included in this map: Chicago & North Western; Chicago Great Western; Litchfield & Madison; Minneapolis & St. Louis; Chicago, Minneapolis & Omaha “Omaha Road” This map originally appeared in the July 2014 issue of Trains Magazine. […]
Central of New Jersey Steam Locomotive Planbook – Postwar Power, second edition By V.S. Roseman Anthracite Railroads Historical Society Inc., P.O. Box 519 Lansdale, PA 19446; 110 pages, 70 b/w photos; spiral bound, 8.5 x 11 inches; $25.98 www.anthraciterailroads.org Thirty-three years is a long time to wait for a book update, and for fans of […]
Cab ride through the layout on Per Laursen’s HO scale modern UP layout based in East-Central Texas. New improved version recorded with a GoPro Hero4 Session camera with much better picture and sound quality. Also the camera is in the correct cab window height for wide-nose locomotives and the train runs at a slower speed […]
Cab ride through the layout on Per Laursen’s HO scale modern UP layout based in East-Central Texas. New improved version recorded with a GoPro Hero4 Session camera with much better picture and sound quality. Also the camera is in the correct cab window height for wide-nose locomotives and the train runs at a slower speed […]
Norfolk Southern ES440AC No. 8101, honoring the heritage of the Central of Georgia Railway, leads westbound train 66E through Old Fort, N.C., on Oct. 19, 2012. Photo by Grady McKinley […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this video, Cody first demonstrates how to paint the fine details he’ll apply to our HO scale Winston-Salem diesel locomotive. He then shares techniques for masking and painting (using an airbrush) the larger locomotive components in the desired base coat colors. […]
