European outline O gauge trains are no stranger to modern operators and collectors. In recent years, we’ve seen three-rail gear exported to the U.S. from Europe by Ace Trains, Basset-Lowke (now a division of Hornby), and our friends at ETS. For several years, however, MTH Electric Trains has been busy cultivating the European market by […]
Visit Richard Coyne’s O gauge 15 x 15-foot layout any day of the year and you’ll find it covered in snow and full of holiday cheer. Richard keeps this holiday layout running all year – he prefers to be called a “Christmas guy” rather than a model railroader! […]
Atlas N scale 4-4-0 steam locomotive An icon of American history is now available in N scale from Atlas. The old-time American 4-4-0 comes in a variety of road names and is equipped with a straight or flared smokestack, depending on the prototype. The model is designed with a tender-mounted motor and traction tires to […]
Bachmann HO scale Porter switcher Equipped with a dual-mode Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder, this Porter 0-6-0 from Bachmann is equipped to handle HO scale industrial chores. The model is an accurate reproduction of its side-tank engine prototype and operates on direct-current (DC) as well as DCC layouts. The H.K. Porter Co. carved out a […]
Walthers HO scale Chesapeake & Ohio Pere Marquette Michigan’s Pere Marquette streamliners are rolling along HO rails thanks to Walthers. Introduced by the Pere Marquette Ry. in 1946 as America’s first postwar streamliners, two identical 7-car trains provided daily service between Detroit and Grand Rapids, Mich. A 1947 merger made the PM part of the […]
Model Rectifier Corp. Prodigy Advance Squared Elite DCC system Price: $549.98 Manufacturer Model Rectifier Corp. 80 Newfield Ave. Edison, NJ 08837 www.modelrectifier.com Comments: Fans of Model Rectifier Corp’s Prodigy Advance Digital Command Control (DCC) system now have a super-size version that’s a perfect fit for club-size layouts of the smallest to the largest scales. The […]
Athearn HO scale NACC 50-foot insulated boxcar Price: $31.98 Manufacturer Athearn Trains 1600 Forbes Way, Ste. 120 Long Beach, CA 90810 www.athearn.com Era: 1964 to 2000sRoad names: Dresser Magcobar, Brown Co., Pearl Brewing Co., and Western Pacific (three road numbers per scheme) Comments: After a 3-year hiatus, Athearn has re-issued its HO scale 50-foot North […]
Empty oil cans return to the oil field of North Dakota behind two fresh Norfolk Southern GE ES44ACs. BNSF Railway train U-NSDFYN rolls west up the BNSF’s St. Croix Subdivision on July 8, 2013. Photo by Matt Krause […]
Red and gray Monon F3’s on the Louisville–Chicago Tippecanoe pause at Crawfordsville, Ind., in fall 1948. Dick Howell Back in the 1950s, when I was working for Kalmbach Publishing Co. but before I moved my family to be with me in Milwaukee, the Monon Route played an important role in getting me to and from Indianapolis […]
Visitors to the Cass Scenic Railroad in the early 1970s watch Shay No. 5 switch in the yard. Check out more Cass and West Virginia coverage in the August 2013 issue of Trains magazine. Photo by J.J. Young Jr. […]
FULL SCREEN David Kahler To my delight I found not one, but two concrete coaling towers straddling the BAR rail yard. Originally the towers were connected with an overhead conveyer for coal. The left tower was primary and supplied coal for BAR freight locomotives while the right tower provided coal for the Maine Central passenger […]
Amtrak P42 No. 185 leads the Pennsylvanian through Lancaster, Pa., on April 21, 2013. Photo by Michael T. Burkhart […]
