The “Crandic” interurban was a safe way for University of Iowa students to travel to and from parties at Cou Falls, 15 miles north of Iowa City. Crandic car 120 is near the Cou Falls station shelter in May 1944. Classic Trains coll. The Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway, universally known by the abbreviation […]
The video features a log train, making its way from the high country to the mill at Sawyer. The train will pass through Clear Creek, over several bridges and through several tunnels. The Dixie Creek Central shares track rights with the Fiddletown & Copperopolis Ry., which serves mines on the upper level of the layout. […]
In October 2013, Trains sent me to Southern California to attend the first-ever Association of Tourist Railroads and Railway Museums meeting, to see Union Pacific’s preparatory work for moving Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 AND to get material for the February 2014 article in the magazine: “Cajon Pass Unplugged.” I spent weeks before and after […]
FULL SCREEN Bob Johnston Amtrak bridge operator Merrill Perkins controls the Northeast Corridor’s Niantic River movable bridge from a tower at the end of the structure. Push-button controls make this bridge easy to operate. FULL SCREEN Bob Johnston The previous Niantic River movable bridge had been built by the New Haven Railroad in 1907, and […]
Railroads for Michigan by Graydon M. Meints Michigan State University Press, Suite 25, Manly Miles Building, 1405 S. Harrison Road, East Lansing, MI 48823-5245; 640 pages, 180 black-and-white photos; hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in.; $49.95. Michigan’s railroad history is well served by “Railroads for Michigan,” a sprawling new survey by historian Graydon M. Meints. From […]
John Pryke working on the Union Freight RR that appeared as a four-part series in Model Railroader in the year 2000. Long-time Model Railroader author and staff friend John Pryke died on Dec. 22, 2013, in Chatham, Mass. John was introduced to readers in 1965 when photos of his prize-winning New Haven RR 0-8-0 locomotive […]
In the February 2014 issue, Steve Monson describes how to scratchbuild a 1950s-style Dairy Queen restaurant. Here, he provides extra graphics to detail your structure. Download a PDF file of signs and a checkerboard floor. For full instructions, see the February 2014 issue. PLEASE NOTE: This is a graphically intense file and it may take […]
Bob Santos describes how to scratchbuild a White Tower restaurant in the February 2014 issue. Here, he provides extra graphics to detail your structure. Download a PDF file of signs, and full-size drawings for 1:24 scale. For full instructions, see the February 2014 issue. This PDF is formatted to print on your home printer. Most […]
Download the PDF of this project here. This PDF is formatted to print on your home printer. Most pieces are formatted to fit on a 8.5″ x 11″ piece of paper. For larger parts of the plan, you will see “break lines.” Line up the break lines to create the larger piece. PLEASE NOTE: This […]
Our little scale trees really make or break the scale quality of our railway gardens. Did you know you could choose from several methods of keeping trees in scale? Here are three practices, but we’ll focus on the third. One approach, planting genetically miniature* plants, ensures almost no pruning for quite a long time but […]
Marc Horovitz Micro planer Proxxon Prox-Tech, Inc. PO Box 1909 Hickory NC 28603 US Price: $890 Website: http://shop.prox-tech.com Miniature planer; plastic housing over heavy aluminum castings; two cutters; 6,000 rpm; 1/4-horse motor; constant automatic feed rate; infinitely adjustable feed depth in .05mm (around .002″) increments; wrenches supplied; instruction manual supplied; replacement blades available; feed rate, […]
Marc Horovitz 1:24 scale plans and construction guide for three-story mill Stoneworks PO Box 190 Shell Knob MO 65747 Price: $17 Website: www.RRStoneworks.com Full-size plans and construction guide for building a three-story grist-mill structure in cement (#7116); three 24″ x 36″ sheets of drawings, photos, and instructions; one four page 81/2″ x 11″ pamphlet of […]
