Current Model Railroader subscribers: See the Athearn Genesis N scale Big Boy in action. We ran the sound-equipped steam locomotive on Jim Kelly’s N scale layout. Jim is a former managing editor of Model Railroader magazine. […]
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Athearn N scale Big Boy
Athearn N scale Big Boy One of the largest locomotives ever built is available as a sound-equipped N scale model. The accurately detailed Athearn Big Boy 4-8-8-4 also has power worthy of its prototype. The N scale locomotive’s drawbar pull is almost double that of the average N scale steamer. Equipped with a Model Rectifier […]
Preservationist George Hart dies NEWSWIRE
George M. Hart Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania LEHIGHTON, Pa. – Legendary Pennsylvania railroad preservationist George Hart, who died Thursday in Lehighton at age 89, will remembered for his work with Reading’s steam fantrips, as the first director of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, and as the indefatigable operator of Rail Tours Inc. excursions. He was […]
Bachmann 1:20.3 K-27
Bachmann 1:20.3 K-27 Several great looking K-27 class 2-8-2 locomotives, each including many roadnumber-specific details found on the prototypes, are now available in 1:20.3 proportion. These new Bachmann Spectrum narrow gauge models also have provisions for adding a sound system and a Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder or a Radio Control (RC) receiver. The K-27 […]
Con-Cor International HO Aerotrain
Con-Cor International HO Aerotrain This HO model of the General Motors Aerotrain may look like something out of the future, but it’s a replica of a unique train introduced more than 50 years ago. Our sample is the basic Con-Cor Aerotrain set that includes a locomotive, two coaches, and an observation car. Add-on sets of […]
An MR quick look: HO scale sand tower and fuel cranes
An MR quick look: HO scale sand tower and fuel cranes Price: $29.95 ManufacturerAmerican Limited ModelsPO Box 7803Fremont, CA94537-7803www.americanlimitedmodels.com Description: plastic ready-to-install models Comments: Factory assembled and painted HO scale models of a modern-era sand tower and two Snyder Equipment Co. fuel cranes are available from American Limited Models. The three models come conveniently packaged […]
Blackstone Models HOn3 boxcars
Blackstone Models HOn3 boxcars An HO scale three-foot-gauge model of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Ry.’s rebuilt 3000-series boxcar is now available from Blackstone Models. A “rebuilt” fleet. By the 1920s two decades of heavy service had taken their toll on Denver & Rio Grande Ry.’s 750 30-foot boxcars. In 1926 the renamed Denver […]
Abandoned rail tunnel for sale NEWSWIRE
PLUMMER, Idaho – A tunnel that used to host Milwaukee Road freights bound for the Puget Sound area is for sale for $650,000, the Associated Press reported. The tunnel has sat vacant since Milwaukee shut down its transcontinental freight line in 1980. “We think it’s time for someone else to own it,” said Don Parker, […]
Atlas O’s O gauge SD40
Conrail limited (edition, that is)O gauge SD40 by Atlas OThe SD40 hails from the early years of dieselization’s second generation of motive power. Cataloged from 1966 through 1972, the 3,000-horsepower locomotive utilized a common frame shared by the Electro-Motive Division’s SD38, SD39, SDP40, and SD45. More than 880 were built, and the model spawned a […]
Lake Central Rail Tours ends Michigan operations NEWSWIRE
HAMMOND, Ind. – Lake Central Rail Tours, which operated excursion trains on Michigan’s Tuscola & Saginaw Bay Railway and successor Great Lakes Central Railroad, is canceling 2008 operations, citing rising insurance and fuel costs as the reasons. Great Lakes will continue to occasionally operate Northern Arrow Excursions to Petoskey, Mich., in cooperation with Cincinnati Railway […]
Video: MTH HO scale Triplex
Current subscribers: See and hear the new MTH Triplex run with Digital Command Control on our club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy and in our workshop with the MTH Digital Command System. […]
Bachmann K-27 locomotive
Dave Goodson 1:20.3 scale, gauge 1, K-27 2-8-2Bachmann Industries1400 E. Erie AvenuePhiladelphia PA 19124Price: $1,400Web site: www.bachmanntrains.com Plastic and metal model of D&RGW K-27 2-8-2; illuminated headlight, classification lights, cab light, firebox; DCC and sound ready; knuckle and hook-and-loop couplers provided; review sample, #83097-pre-wreck Nº 455, green boiler; 19V Pittmann motor with flywheel; engineer and […]
