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Name: The Pender Steel & Iron Supply Co. Scale: 1:24 proportion, 15″ gauge Size: 2 x 4 feet Theme: urban industry Locale: Vancouver, B.C., Canada Era: 1950s Style: island Mainline run: none Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: Peco no. 4 Maximum grade: none Originally appeared in the September 2009 issue of Model Railroader. Click here […]
Flying flags that mark it as an extra, Louisville & Nashville 806 South pulls a 106-car freight upgrade south of Montgomery, Ala., on May 26, 1955. The train consists mainly of empty cars bound for the docks at Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans. […]
Name: Central River Subdivision Scale: N (1:160) Room size: 12 x 14 feet Theme: your choice Period: your choice Mainline run: 33 feet Minimum radius: 17″ main line, 13″ staging Minimum turnout: no. 8 main line, no. 6 staging Maximum grade: 1.38 percent Originally appeared in the November 2006 issue of Model Railroader and 102 […]
Lionel took ride in making its own tooling and producing its train line, but it did occasionally turn to other firms for key molds and parts. Subscribers can download a PDF of an article that inventories the Plasticville items in orange-and-blue boxes used in Lionel promotional train outfits between 1958 and 1963. […]
Name: Soo Line Stevens Point Division and Manitowoc Branch Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 33 x 42 feet Prototype: Soo Line Locale: central Wisconsin Era: 1954 Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 170 feet Minimum radius: 28″ main, 22″ branch Minimum turnout: no. 6 main, no. 5 branch Maximum grade: 2 percent Originally appeared in the July […]
Name: South Shasta Lines Scale: O (1:48) Size: 42 x 60 feet Prototype: Southern Pacific Locale: Gerber to Dunsmuir, Calif. Era: 1940s to 1950s Style: Walk-in Mainline run: 450 feet Minimum radius: 72″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 4 percent Originally appeared in the July 2009 issue of Model Railroader. See a PDF version […]
Name: The White Mountain Division Scale: N (1:160) Size: 12′-6″ x 16′-0″ Prototype: Maine Central Locale: Northern New Hampshire and northern Vermont Era: early fall 1949 to early fall 1960 Style: two-level, walk-in Mainline run: 69 feet Minimum radius: 16″ Minimum turnout: no. 6, except where indicated Maximum grade: 2.3 percent See the PDF versions […]
50 years ago in railroad history … A supplement to the Classic Trains Online Look Back e-mail newsletter Chesapeake & Ohio on May 7 launches mail and express service between Grand Rapids and Petoskey, Mich., using Railvans – a predecessor of today’s RoadRailer railcar/semitrailer hybrids. . . . Chicago & North Western, seeking to modernize […]
Name: New England & Pacific Scale: N (1:160) Size: 17 x 26 feet Prototype: Maine Central RR Mountain Division (freelanced equipment) Locale: Portland, Maine, to St. Johnsbury, Vt. Era: steam-to-diesel transition to current era Mainline run: 200 feet Minimum radius: 24″ Minimum turnout: no. 8 Maximum grade: 3 percent Originally appeared in the June 2009 […]
Name: Oakland, Antioch, & Eastern Ry. Scale: HO (1:87.1) Room size: 10′-6″ x 19′-0″ Prototype: Sacramento Northern Ry. Locale: San Francisco Bay area, California Era: Late 1940s to early 1960s Style: shelf with central peninsula Mainline run: 108 feet Minimum radius: 18″ Maximum grade: 4 percent Originally appeared in the June 2009 issue of Model […]
Name: Naugatuck Valley RR Scale: N (1:160) Size: 9’9″ x 10’0″ Prototype: New York, New Haven & Hartford RR Period: fall 1959 Style: walkaround Mainline run: Waterbury/south 41 feet, Waterbury/north 11 feet Minimum turnout: no. 5 Minimum radius: 11″ Originally appeared in the October 2008 issue of Model Railroader. See a PDF version of this […]
Name: New York, Kittatinny & Western Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 18′-0″ x 23′-0″ Prototype: freelanced based on the Lehigh & Hudson River; Lehigh & New England; New York, Ontario & Western; and others Locale: northwestern New Jersey Era: summer 1963 Style: around-the-walls Mainline run: 175 feet Minimum radius: 28″ Minimum turnouts: no. 7 main line, […]
