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Video: Harley Layow’s O gauge layout
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Video: Woodland Scenics O Scale Built-&-Ready Structure Line
These ready-to-install structures by Woodland Scenics is a smart new product for the O scale market that will spruce up the appearance of any layout with ease. […]
Video: Lionel O gauge Canadian Pacific freight set
The Canadian Maple Leaf freight set combines an uncommon road name (for a complete set, that is) with an eclectic selection of rolling stock. […]
Video: Lionel O gauge Canadian Pacific freight set
The Canadian Maple Leaf freight set combines an uncommon road name (for a complete set, that is) with an eclectic selection of rolling stock. […]
Video: Woodland Scenics O Scale Built-&-Ready Structure Line
These ready-to-install structures by Woodland Scenics is a smart new product for the O scale market that will spruce up the appearance of any layout with ease. […]
Railroad Graffiti: Close-Up
FULL SCREEN Andrea Fuhrman FULL SCREEN Andrea Fuhrman FULL SCREEN Andrea Fuhrman FULL SCREEN Andrea Fuhrman FULL SCREEN Andrea Fuhrman FULL SCREEN Andrea Fuhrman FULL SCREEN Andrea Fuhrman FULL SCREEN Andrea Fuhrman FULL SCREEN Andrea Fuhrman FULL SCREEN Andrea Fuhrman Colossus of Roads drawing “October in the Railroad Earth” along with other graffiti on the […]
Looping in Colorado
Colorado & Southern narrow gauge 2-8-0s Nos. 70 and 73 cross the high bridge on the Georgetown Loop with seven cars. The engines are moving at only 5 mph due to the frail nature of the bridge on May 14, 1938. Photo by R. H. Kindig […]
A friend in time: My railroad watch
Bought from a pawnshop when the author was a boy, this Hamilton Railway Special 992 watch passed many an official time check during his 44 years on the railroad. Jack O. Elwood I knew I wanted to be a railroad man, specifically a locomotive engineer, when I was about six or seven years old. This […]
Look buster, get out of my way
Kansas City Southern’s crack passenger train, the “Southern Belle,” ran head on into a standing freight train at Baton Rouge, La., on Dec. 8, 1967. A northbound freight with three GP30s was set to hold the main, and await the passenger train, which would take the siding. The front end brakeman on the freight was […]
Now departing Cumberland
The lead F-unit of six pulling a westbound Baltimore & Ohio Time Saver train eases along in front of the Cumberland, Md., station on a July 1956 day. The train is bound for points west via Grafton, W.Va. Read more about Cumberland, the shop, and the B&O in the March 2012 issue of Trains. Photo […]
Atlas Model Railroad Co. and Atlas O to merge
The merger of Atlas O, LLC and Atlas Model Railroad Co. Inc. was announced today by Thomas W. Haedrich, Atlas Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Atlas O, LLC will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlas Model Railroad Co. Inc., effective January 1st, 2012. “The merger accomplishes family business planning and makes for a more […]
Simple techniques for weathering rolling stock
Simple techniques for weathering rolling stock Don’t miss Alan Olson’s series on weathering in the February 2012 issue. Trains.com members can download a companion article on weathering techniques for rolling stock. […]
