In 1956, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. re-equipped its El Capitan passenger train with all-new streamlined equipment, including Hi-Level cars. Check out this HO scale model of the famous train from Wm. K. Walthers Inc. We ran the train on the Model Railroader staff’s club model train layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]
In 1956, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. re-equipped its El Capitan passenger train with all-new streamlined equipment, including Hi-Level cars. Check out this HO scale model of the famous train from Wm. K. Walthers Inc. We ran the train on the Model Railroader staff’s club model train layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]
The HO scale Comet from Con-Cor International features a factory-installed Digitrax Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder. Watch this New York, New Haven & Hartford RR streamliner run on the Model Railroader staff’s club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]
The HO scale Comet from Con-Cor International features a factory-installed Digitrax Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder. Watch this New York, New Haven & Hartford RR streamliner run on the Model Railroader staff’s club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]
View a roster of the cars built by the Budd Co. for Canadian Pacific’s Canadian, launched in 1955 and profiled in the Spring 2005 issue of Classic Trains. […]
Like many manufacturers, when Lionel had made prototypes of potential products, whether they went forward to production or not, they often held the single samples in an archive stored away for possible use in the future. Sometimes the market wasn’t right when they were proposed, or the technology wasn’t there to do it right. But […]
Bob Keller demonstrates how freight is loaded via conveyor belt to its destination, working either as a railroad structure or the loading arm of a trackside factory. […]
FULL SCREEN Kevin Scanlon Don Colangelo, Delaware-Lackawanna chief mechanical officer, cleans the handrails on C420 No. 405 at Scranton, Pa., on April 9, 2012. FULL SCREEN Kevin Scanlon Colangelo and author Kevin Tomasic discuss Alcos at Tower 60, Scranton, Pa., on April 9, 2012. FULL SCREEN Kevin Scanlon Delaware-Lackawanna grain train SPG09 heads for Horizon […]
Bob Keller demonstrates how freight is loaded via conveyor belt to its destination, working either as a railroad structure or the loading arm of a trackside factory. […]
Name: Eric Schade Forum User Name: captain perry Railroad Name: Visiting the Down East Light Railway Location: East Boothbay, Maine Scale: 1:13.7 (7/8 inch =1 foot) Description: Wood pellet fired modified Ruby I made a new boiler for this Ruby kit so it could burn solid fuel. She has a water pump working off the […]
Walthers HO scale El Capitan cars The arrival of a famous name train model is a much-anticipated event at the Model Railroader offices. Receiving the Walthers HO scale El Capitan was no exception. The ready-to-run cars accurately model one of the last streamlined trains to run under the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. nameplate. […]
Con-Cor International HO scale New Haven Comet Recently, if you were a modeler looking for an HO scale New York, New Haven & Hartford RR Comet, you’d either have to pay big bucks for a brass model (assuming you could find one) or embark on an ambitious scratchbuilding project. That’s not the case anymore, thanks […]
