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. […]
An eastbound express Metra train, operating in push mode, pauses at Western Springs, Ill., on Sept. 10, 2009. You can see the engineer in the window of the cabcar. Paul Hoffmann Q What’s the difference in touch or feel for an engineer running in push mode versus pull mode? Is there a limit to the […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 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. […]
Stacey Walthers Naffah (pictured with her father, Phil Walthers) will become the fourth president of Wm. K. Walthers Inc. Phil Walthers is retiring from day-to-day operations but will remain chairman of the board. Model railroad manufacturer Wm. K. Walthers Inc. has announced Stacey Walthers Naffah will become the company’s fourth president, starting in September 2018. […]
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. […]
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. […]
TORONTO — VIA Rail Canada’s Canadian is notorious for delays. But a trip this week from Toronto to Vancouver is proving to be spectacularly late, even by VIA standards. The CBC reports that as of Thursday afternoon, the westbound Canadian was some 45 hours behind schedule, after leaving Toronto 26 hours late. While VIA has […]
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. […]
