Union Pacific road diesels lead a stack train along the Meadow Valley Wash. Dick Christianson explains how he scenicked this side of our N scale project layout. photo by Bill Zuback Fig. 1 Cutting foam. Dick’s friend Stener Harildstad used a serrated kitchen knife to cut the extruded-foam insulation board. The sloping contour of the […]
Two Canadian Pacific trains, with motive power from CP, CSX Transportation, and Norfolk Southern, meet near Oconomowoc, Wis., in November 2014. Brian Schmidt Q It is common to see a train from one railroad which is powered, partially or fully, by locomotives from another railroad. Why does this happen so frequently and how is the […]
HO scale locomotives Alco RS-32 and RS-36 diesel locomotives. New paint schemes. RS-32: Central Vermont (one road number) and Lamoille Valley (one number). RS-36: Apache Ry. (American Revolution Bicentennial, three numbers); Livonia, Avon & Lakeville (one number); National Railways of Mexico (two numbers); Ontario Central (one number); and Norfolk & Western (two numbers). New numbers. […]
This video by Corey Bonsall was filmed on the Golden Spike Train Club of Utah layout. Corey finished a kitbash build (Two Foot Rule) of an HO scale Denver & Rio Grande Western F-81 2-10-2 locomotive. […]
Meet Grant Eastman and hear about the objectives, design, and operations philosophies behind his N scale Southern Alberta Rail. Video by Mark Dance. […]
This video by Corey Bonsall was filmed on the Golden Spike Train Club of Utah layout. Corey finished a kitbash build (Two Foot Rule) of an HO scale Denver & Rio Grande Western F-81 2-10-2 locomotive. […]
Meet Grant Eastman and hear about the objectives, design, and operations philosophies behind his N scale Southern Alberta Rail. Video by Mark Dance. […]
This is a video layout tour of Ron Marsh’s N-scale layout, the Texas Colorado & Western Railway. The TC&W is a protolanced model of BNSF operations From Fort Worth, TX, into central Colorado in 2008. The layout is a double deck, point-to-point style with approximately 100 feet of visible mainline, a 9 1/2 turn helix […]
This is a video layout tour of Ron Marsh’s N-scale layout, the Texas Colorado & Western Railway. The TC&W is a protolanced model of BNSF operations From Fort Worth, TX, into central Colorado in 2008. The layout is a double deck, point-to-point style with approximately 100 feet of visible mainline, a 9 1/2 turn helix […]
Rolf Christinat’s fictional N scale Sonora Pass layout is inspired by the arid landscapes located in the Western States. […]
Louisville & Nashville E8 No. 787 leads the head-end cars and lone coach of Evansville–St. Louis train 10 out of East St. Louis in May 1968. R. R. Wallin, George W. Hamlin coll. “No, that train doesn’t stop here. You’ll have to go up to ‘Hoptown’ to get it,” was the less-than-helpful information from the […]
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