Name: Shawn Viggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Live steam Regner Konrad steaming during a spring snow. […]
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Summertime logging
Name: Shawn Vigggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Summertime logging with live steam Regner Class A Climax and scratch built log cars and log loader. […]
City Terminal & Transfer Series: Episode 6 – City Planners
Now that the trackwork is in place on the City Terminal & Transfer Railway, Kent Johnson and Bob Keller turn their attention to planning the urban scenery. In this video, you’ll see how careful consideration of a structure’s footprint allows the guys to place a wide array of city and industrial structures made by Menards, […]
Great Northern Pacific caboose view
Ride along on a trip around Dan Flanagan’s Great Northern Pacific HO scale layout. He mounted a GoPro camera on a flatcar at boxcar height, with a caboose roof just under the lens, and put it at the end of a freight pulled by a 2-8-0 Consolidation. […]
Southern Pacific Extreme Trains at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum
Mid-1950s Southern Pacific trains are featured in this edition of Extreme Trains: a 106 car mixed freight with three cab forward helpers; The City of San Francisco streamliner with Alco PAs; and a PFE refrigerator train with two cab forward locomotives. Video by Bill Rogers. […]
Lester Perry’s Chesapeake & Ohio RR – Westbound
Lester Perry’s HO scale Chesapeake & Ohio model railroad was built in a 13′ x 17′ out building with a dirt floor and no electricity — more than 300 feet from the main building. He used an MRC DCC system. Video by Bill Fagan. […]
Trains on the Chicago “L”
Name: Robert Mayer Forum User Name: Robert Mayer Railroad Name: Robert Mayer Location: Tucson Az Scale: O Theme: Chicago “L” Description: The layout depicts trains run by the Chicago Transit Authority. […]
Trains Presents: Big Boy No. 4018 at the Museum of the American Railroad
Take a look at Big Boy No. 4018 at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas, with Trains correspondent Hayley Enoch and museum President Bob LaPrelle. You’ll learn what makes the Lone Star State’s lone preserved Big Boy special! For more Big Boy video, check out Big Boy: On the Road to Restoration, […]
Mountains to seaside on a triple deck model railroad
Note: This article originally appeared in the June 2013 Model Railroader. Mike updated his plan and wrote a followup story in the July 2018 issue. Ever since receiving my first Hornby train set as a child in 1954, my modeling interests were focused on the railways of my home country, Great Britain. About 10 years […]
Rainy days and toy trains
Name: JANIS ROGUSKIE Railroad Name: Reading Lines Location: Pennsylvania Scale: O Gauge Theme: Reading Company Description: What better to do on a rainy Saturday afternoon than to run some trains. It’s been a fruitful modeling season (January to March) for me and many of my modeling efforts are on the layout in this video. A […]
Canadian Canyons Series: Scenery All-Stars, Part 2 – Terrain & Trees
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MRVP all-star Jenny Maaske gets into the scenery-making mode! After Drew and Kent tackle terrain coverage, Jenny shares her techniques for forming the endless forest of trees required to fill our N scale (1:160) Canadian Canyons project layout. […]
Modeler’s Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office for May 2018
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page What’s new in Cody’s Office? Check out sound-equipped Pennsy E units in HO from Walthers, MR&T cabooses in N from Atlas, and more in this month’s episode. Down in the Model Railroader workshop associate editor Cody Grivno also gives you tips for adding […]