Computer desktop wallpaper from the August 2016 Model Railroader

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Click on the links to the left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. The in-plant switcher pulls a cut of hot-metal cars from the basic oxygen furnace past empty slag cars sitting next to the blast furnace. The steel industry is the focus of the latest phase of Rick Crumrine’s HO […]

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Video: Model Rectifier Corp Light Genie model railroad lighting controller

Model Rectifier Corp Light Genie lighting controller

Adding lighting effects like flashing signals, flickering gas lamps, warning strobes, and rotating beacons to a model railroad has never been easier thanks to the Model Rectifier Corp. Light Genie lighting controller. Check out some of the features of this powerful model railroad accessory with Model Railroader associate editor Steve Otte. […]

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Video: Model Rectifier Corp Light Genie model railroad lighting controller

Model Rectifier Corp Light Genie lighting controller

Adding lighting effects like flashing signals, flickering gas lamps, warning strobes, and rotating beacons to a model railroad has never been easier thanks to the Model Rectifier Corp. Light Genie lighting controller. Check out some of the features of this powerful model railroad accessory with Model Railroader associate editor Steve Otte. […]

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Soundtraxx Econami decoder

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Kevin Strong 4-amp DCC motor/sound decoder  ECO-400 Soundtraxx “Econami” Soundtraxx 210 Rock Point Drive Durango CO 81301 Price: $149.95 Website: www.soundtraxx.com Size: 2 3/4″ x 13/16″ x 5/8″ Pros: Excellent motor control; choice of sounds allows for a good degree of customization; good sound quality; plenty of volume Cons: No external trigger for synchronized chuff—must […]

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New model trains for the week of June 23, 2016

Summit USA HO small modern Amtrak station

HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Diesel SD70ACe diesel locomotive. Canadian National (SD70ACe demonstrator patchout), Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern (Lackawanna, New York Central, and Wabash heritage units in one number each and horsehead silhouette), Union Pacific (George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum and Chicago & North Western, Denver & Rio Grande Western, and Southern Pacific […]

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Operations on the Lone Pine & Western

Operations on the Lone Pine & Western

Name:    Tom Gaps Railroad Name:    Lone Pine & Western Location:    Milwaukie, Oregon Scale:    1:20.3 Theme:    Early 1900’s Minning Branch Line From Lone Pine To Summit Description:    Multiple trains running during Rose City Garden Railway Society’s Summer Tour public Open House – June 2016 […]

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Video: Walthers HO scale Capitol Limited passenger train

Walthers HO scale Capitol Limited passenger train

Strata-Domes and streamlined diesel locomotives highlight the HO scale Capitol Limited passenger train from Walthers. Each passenger car and locomotive is prototypically detailed. Both E unit diesels are powered and include SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoders. See and hear this magnificent passenger train as it makes a run along the Model Railroader […]

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