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These simple calculations will make it easy and safe to take your trains to new heights on an O or S gauge model railroad. John Rusterholz The Lionel no. 110 trestle set from the postwar era brings additional operating enjoyment to any O gauge layout. Almost every layout featured in Classic Toy Trains has track […]
This video was one of the entries in a recent video contest of the NMRA South Central Wisconsin Division. The video features Milwaukee Road 261 4-8-4 pulling an excursion train through La Crosse, Wis., on BNSF trackage in 2002. […]
“Rail Ramblings 1937,” produced by Ken Hojnacki, was the first-place winner in the recent video contest conducted by the South Central Wisconsin Division – NMRA. […]
“A Set-Out and a Pick-up” was the second place winner in the model category in the recent video contest of the South Central Wisconsin Division – NMRA. The video was produced by Bob Wundrock on his HO scale Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie layout. […]
Owner: John Brennan Prototype Modeled: Interchange with EJ&E, IC , CB&Q Reporting Marks: CP&W Layout Era: Sept. 1940 Theme: Midwestern Scale: HO The railroad is an overlay of the CB&Q from Chicago staging to Galesburg staging. There are 23 trains scheduled in three-hour session on a 4 to 1 fast clock. Power is almost exclusively […]
This HO scale masterpiece is a double-deck proto-lance 1950s-era layout built by Guy Cantwell that represents parts of California’s central valley, as well as the railroads that operated in the Sierra foothills and mountains. It features prototypes from the Southern Pacific, Western Pacific/Tidewater Southern, Sierra, Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite Valley Railroad, and West Side Railroads. Most […]
This is a short segment of which many were unaware was at the end of the 1950’s movie of HO scale custom-made Aerotrain. Video by Bruce Kingsley. […]
Three CMRM volunteer trains brought to Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s BNSF Days are featured. There is a combined El Capitan – Super Chief, a grain train composed of cars from a variety (most BNSF heritage roads) railroads, and a Santa Fe intermodal train from the 1990s. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page John Ottman’s HO scale St. George model railroad packs a lot of detail into 12 x 16 feet. Watch trains run through the scenes of small-town Appalachia in this video. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page John Ottman’s HO scale St. George model railroad packs a lot of detail into 12 x 16 feet. Watch trains run through the scenes of small-town Appalachia in this video. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Layout construction continues with foamboard fun! David and Kent show how to cut and attach sound-deadening foam insulation board to the plywood tabletop. To give the layout framework a finished appearance, they also cut and install a hardboard fascia. Watch it first on […]
In this episode, David and Kent top off the framework for the 5 x 9-foot toy train layout. But our big O scale trains (and big city scenery) require a sturdy platform. That’s where the guys step in to show you how to measure, cut, and install a plywood tabletop. Watch here on MRVideoPlus.com, read […]
