Faller Gras-Fix static grass applicator with funnel sifter Price: See your Faller dealer ManufacturerGebr. Faller GmbHKreuzstrasse 9D-78148 Gütenbach, Germanyfaller.de Comments: This handy tool for applying static grass is the latest offering from Faller. The Gras-Fix measures 91⁄2″ long and has a 3″ diameter grass hopper that’s 1-7/8″ deep. It also includes a funnel sifter for […]
Walthers HO scale Santa Fe RPO The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. El Capitan is the next HO scale name passenger train offered by Walthers. This well-detailed Railway Post Office with a simulated stainless steel finish kicks off the series.The prototype. Railway Post Office (RPO) cars were a common sight on the head end […]
FULL SCREEN Trains Magazine Collection Skiers disembark Boston & Maine’s Snow Train at North Conway, N.H. FULL SCREEN Trains Magazine collection Passengers enjoy their ride aboard the Boston & Maine Snow Train. FULL SCREEN John Gruber collection The front cover of Boston & Maine’s 36-page booklet advertising its 1940 season. FULL SCREEN John Gruber collection […]
HO scale locomotives General Electric Dash 8-40C and 8-40CW diesel locomotives. New road numbers and paint schemes. Dash 8-40C: Canadian National (15th anniversary or modern paint schemes), Ferrocarriles Nationales de Mexico (three road numbers). Dash 8-40CW: BNSF (three new numbers); Conrail (“Quality” lettering), CSX (patched Conrail), Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific (three new numbers). Two […]
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This Lionel O gauge Wabash Blue Bird passenger set honors one of the premier trains that at one time ran daily between Chicago and St. Louis. […]
This Lionel O gauge Wabash Blue Bird passenger set honors one of the premier trains that at one time ran daily between Chicago and St. Louis. […]
Once again Lionel is thinking outside the box regarding starter set road names. This three-car set gets points for offering something other than, say, the Santa Fe. It serves up the Wabash. The Wabash was a bridge route that ran from Buffalo, N.Y., to Kansas City, with branches to Omaha, Des Moines, St. Louis, Chicago, […]
One great feature of the O gauge world is the uncanny knack of some enterprising folks to identify a needed toy train and then manufacture it. Whether you’re talking about hobbyists who create a cottage industry of making reproduction prewar and postwar train parts – or someone like Jerry Williams, who saw a market for […]
Fairford, a Lynton & Barnstaple Manning Wardle 2-6-2T on the embankment and bridge between Hinton Magnolia tunnel and Higher Buxton. On the left of the line is Juniperus communis ‘Compressa’. Near it grow the red, fleshy leaves of a Sempervivum sp. Opposite, on the other side of the line, the bronze winter color of Cryptomeria […]
Watch this HO scale Fairbanks-Morse H-24-66 Train Master diesel from Atlas Model Railroad Co. run on the Model Railroader staff’s layout. This Gold Series model features a QSI Quantum Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder. […]
