How to strip paint from a locomotive shell

A hand holding a plastic locomotive part in a liquid bath.

Name:    Chris Haon Railroad Name:    LP&CL Railroad Location:    Marietta, GA Scale:    1:29 Theme:    Whimsical Description:    Here is a short video on how I strip paint off of locomotives or cars to get them ready to be repainted! Hope you enjoy!! […]

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Video: Broadway Limited Imports HO scale PRR H10s 2-8-0

This HO scale Pennsylvania RR class H10s from Broadway Limited Imports features the firm’s Paragon2 Digital Command Control sound decoder and synchronized puffing smoke. Watch the HO scale 2-8-0 Consolidation-type steam locomotive as it hauls freight on the Model Railroader staff’s club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]

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Video: Broadway Limited Imports HO scale PRR H10s 2-8-0

This HO scale Pennsylvania RR class H10s from Broadway Limited Imports features the firm’s Paragon2 Digital Command Control sound decoder and synchronized puffing smoke. Watch the HO scale 2-8-0 Consolidation-type steam locomotive as it hauls freight on the Model Railroader staff’s club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]

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On creating the world’s largest fusee

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Union Pacific’s City of Denver curves away from North Western Station in Chicago at the start of its run west. Sister streamliner City of Portland once made an unscheduled stop at Oak Park, 9 miles west. Wallace W. Abbey In spring 1955, I was working as a ticket clerk at Chicago & North Western’s Oak […]

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2014 O-gauge MTH layout

2014 O-gauge MTH layout

Name:    Chuck Willey Location:    Ohio Description:    2014 O Gauge Layout MTH engines and Lionel accessories. Plasticville and paper buildings. No glue or solder. Will tear down in February. […]

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Florida East Coast scheduled trains

Direction Southbound (read down)         Train No. 101 107 109 111 121 123 335 Frequency Daily Daily Ex. Sun., Mon. Ex. Fri., Sat, Daily Ex. Sat. Ex. Sat., Sun. Type CSX, NS, Bowden intermodal (UPS), autos NS, Bowden intermodal (UPS), autos Empty rock, manifest Intermodal, manifest, autos CSX, NS, FEC intermodal, autos […]

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“Mechanical interlocking and signaling” article series

Interlockingmachine

Interlocking machine The intricacies of interlocking plants have fascinated me since I read Model Railroader’s “Mechanical interlocking and signaling” series in 1961. In that series, MR’s Gordon Odegard and Paul Larson explained how they scratchbuilt a miniature interlocking machine that included operating finger-size levers for Paul’s HO layout. It took me almost 50 years to […]

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New products for the week of November 20, 2014

AthearnTrainsHOscaleAtchisonTopekaSantaFeCF7diesellocomotive

Athearn Trains HO scale Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe CF7 diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe CF7 diesel locomotive. New road names: BNSF Ry. (Heritage I) and Watco (three Santa Fe patchouts, one number each). New road numbers: Amtrak and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (round cab in pinstripe scheme, angled […]

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