This bright red caboose and its sister, No. 101, escort special rail loads and are owned by PHN LLC. Timothy J. O’Malley Q Last year I saw a caboose on the tail end of a BNSF Railway train with PHNX reporting marks. Is it escorting the three hopper cars in front of it? Who owns […]
Click on the link below to download the prototype drawings. Harold W. Russell Frequent Model Railroader contributor Harold W. Russell wrote about the Avoca, N.Y., station in the September 2018 issue. He made detailed drawings from measurements taken from the prototype Delaware, Lackawanna & Western train depot. Click on the link below to download Harold’s […]
Click on the link below to download the plans for this project. Alain Kap In the September 2018 Model Railroader, Alain Kap describes how he scratchbuilt one of these distinctive tank houses from styrene for his HO scale Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Surf Line layout. Featuring a windmill these structures were once common in […]
Steve Miazga’s updated N scale Missabe Junction is featured in the September 2018 Model Railroader. Check out This first article about Steve’s layout from the November 2013 Model Railroader. Steve Miazga grew up less than two blocks from the Soo Line main in Rhinelander, Wis. As a kid, he saw the Soo’s first Geeps and […]
I took this train as a boy from Minneapolis to Mason City to visit relatives. I loved to watch this train pulling into the CNW station which where my Grandfather worked as a train dispatcher. Video by Gene Borman. […]
The Alameda County Central Railroad Society has been at the Alameda County Fairgrounds for decades. They maintain and operate two layouts — one O scale and one HO. This video documents the O scale layout, featuring both standard and narrow gauge operations. […]
I took this train as a boy from Minneapolis to Mason City to visit relatives. I loved to watch this train pulling into the CNW station which where my Grandfather worked as a train dispatcher. Video by Gene Borman. […]
The Alameda County Central Railroad Society has been at the Alameda County Fairgrounds for decades. They maintain and operate two layouts — one O scale and one HO. This video documents the O scale layout, featuring both standard and narrow gauge operations. […]
Former Kalmbach Publishing Co. president James J. (Jim) King died on July 20. He was 95 years old. Al Kalmbach hired Jim to serve as the company’s controller in July 1954. In 1963, he was named Kalmbach’s executive vice president. Two years later, he became company president, a position he held for 22 years. Jim […]
Click on the links at left to download the image sized for your screen. A Boston & Maine passenger train races by the trawler Lily on Sam Novello’s HO scale model railroad. This month you can download this image to use as a background on your computer screen. Click on the links below to get […]
Name: Peter Martens Forum User Name: Peter_J_M Railroad Name: The Silver Rail Club Location: Cumberland, Virginia Scale: O-scale Theme: Our 200th video! Description: Since 2007, the Silver Rail Club has provided fun and engaging model train activities for seniors, veterans, their families and the general public. We truly have 3-rail, O-scale to-go as we enjoy […]
DENVER — Details are emerging about the moment leading up to a person’s death Saturday after being struck by Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 844 north of Denver. About 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, the Denver Post Cheyenne Frontier Days train, a chartered special led by Union Pacific 4-8-4 Northern No. 844 and made up of 21 […]
