BUILT-&-READY U.S. POST OFFICE FROM WOODLAND SCENICS Price: $129.99 (BR5864) Features: Fully assembled and decorated, illuminated interior, cardstock interior, freestanding mail box, designed for use with the Just-Plug lighting system. Back in the early 1990s, I was driving between Who-Knows-Where and Nowheresville, New Mexico. The terrain was bleak and, except for the road and utility […]
With a modest investment in time you can make a permanent cradle useful for all aspects of train upkeep. Stan Trzoniec Too many of us rely on an old blanket or something like it when we need to place a treasured locomotive or railcar on our workbench for repair or maintenance. But you have no […]
Name: Shawn Viggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Bellflower Cricket steaming in the snow […]
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. […]
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. […]
