Atlas HO scale FMC 5347 boxcar Separately applied brake hardware and wire brake rods are just some of the underbody details on the Atlas HO scale FMC 5347 boxcar. A new HO scale boxcar based on a 1970s prototype has been released by Atlas Model Railroad Co. The FMC 5,347-cubic-foot-capacity boxcar features a one-piece injection-molded […]
Tangent HO 40-foot Mini Hy-Cube boxcar Price: $44.95 Manufacturer Tangent Scale Models P.O. Box 6514 Asheville, NC 28816 www.tangentscalemodels.com Era: 1967 to 1990 (as decorated) Road names: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Burlington Northern; Denver & Rio Grande Western; Illinois Central; Milwaukee Road; and Northern Pacific. Multiple road numbers per scheme. Undecorated kit also available. Comments: […]
Rapido Trains HO scale General Motors Diesel Division SW1200RS diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives General Motors Diesel Division SW1200RS diesel locomotive. Canadian National (“wet noodle” herald with black cab and red/orange cab, and North America scheme with small “wet noodle” herald) and Canadian Pacific (block and script lettering, Action Red with 5” stripes and Multimark […]
Mike McGrattan was a father, husband and empathetic citizen. He was also a well known N scale modeler and an employee of Rapido Trains. Mike passed away about a year ago, but he is far from forgotten. In his memory, members of The Railwire online community organized a special passenger train which has visited and […]
This video features a Southern Pacific freight train with two cab forwards and a 4-8-2 Mountain operating during Old West Days at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. […]
Mike McGrattan was a father, husband and empathetic citizen. He was also a well known N scale modeler and an employee of Rapido Trains. Mike passed away about a year ago, but he is far from forgotten. In his memory, members of The Railwire online community organized a special passenger train which has visited and […]
Mike McGrattan was a father, husband and empathetic citizen. He was also a well known N scale modeler and an employee of Rapido Trains. Mike passed away about a year ago, but he is far from forgotten. In his memory, members of The Railwire online community organized a special passenger train which has visited and […]
This video features a Southern Pacific freight train with two cab forwards and a 4-8-2 Mountain operating during Old West Days at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD50 diesel locomotive. Chessie System (Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks), Chicago & North Western, CSX (gray and blue in one number, Chessie System patchout in three numbers), Erie Lackawanna (fictional paint scheme, three numbers), Norfolk Southern, Northern Pacific (fictional paint scheme, three numbers), and Union Pacific. Four numbers per scheme […]
This line of numbers and letters is a rail brand. Deciphered correctly, they show railroads the weight, maker, treatment, design, and manufacture date of a rail. Ed Funkhouser Q I saw these numbers and letters on the side of a rail near Mebane, N.C. Can you tell me what they mean? – Ed Funkhouser, Raleigh, […]
Santa Fe PA No. 61, whose long nose may have saved its crew 14 years later, in 1951 flies green flags on the point of First 24, the Grand Canyon, at Caliente, Calif. Stan Kistler On December 22, 1965, I was the engineer on Santa Fe Railway Los Angeles–San Diego train 76, one of the […]
Click on the image or link to download a PDF copy of a blank track warrant form. On many modern-era railroads, track warrants are used to move trains over the line. Jerry Dziedzic describes dispatching a model railroad with track warrants in the August 2017 Model Railroader. […]
