Member video: Cab ride though Per Laursen’s HO scale UP layout

Cab ride though Per Laursen's HO scale UP layout

Cab ride through the layout on Per Laursen’s HO scale modern UP layout based in East-Central Texas. New improved version recorded with a GoPro Hero4 Session camera with much better picture and sound quality. Also the camera is in the correct cab window height for wide-nose locomotives and the train runs at a slower speed […]

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Member video: Cab ride though Per Laursen’s HO scale UP layout

Cab ride though Per Laursen's HO scale UP layout

Cab ride through the layout on Per Laursen’s HO scale modern UP layout based in East-Central Texas. New improved version recorded with a GoPro Hero4 Session camera with much better picture and sound quality. Also the camera is in the correct cab window height for wide-nose locomotives and the train runs at a slower speed […]

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Winston-Salem Southbound Series: Painting an EMD GP9 diesel locomotive, Part 4 – Painting detail parts

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page In this video, Cody first demonstrates how to paint the fine details he’ll apply to our HO scale Winston-Salem diesel locomotive. He then shares techniques for masking and painting (using an airbrush) the larger locomotive components in the desired base coat colors. […]

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Winston-Salem Southbound Series: Painting an EMD GP9 diesel locomotive, Part 4 – Painting detail parts

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page In this video, Cody first demonstrates how to paint the fine details he’ll apply to our HO scale Winston-Salem diesel locomotive. He then shares techniques for masking and painting (using an airbrush) the larger locomotive components in the desired base coat colors. […]

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Denver’s Burnham Shops closing after more than a century

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DENVER — On Feb. 14 another piece of Colorado railroad history will slip away as Union Pacific closes its Burnham Shops in Denver. Once the second largest UP shop behind Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Ark., the loss of Burnham closes another chapter in the history of the late and much beloved Denver & […]

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New model trains for the week of February 11, 2016

Bowser HO scale General Motors Diesel SD40-2 diesel locomotive

Bowser HO scale General Motors Diesel SD40-2 diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives General Motors Diesel SD40-2 diesel locomotive. CP Rail (small Multimark in two road numbers, as-delivered scheme, large Multimark with 8” stripes in two numbers, no Multimark with or without number on rear of long hood in two numbers each, and dual-flag scheme in […]

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Tour the Fern Creek and Western Railroad

Tour the Fern Creek and Western Railroad

Name:    Trevor Park Railroad Name:    Fern Creek and Western Railroad Location:    Santa Cruz, CA Scale:    1:20.3 with some 1:22.5 mixed in. Theme:    Logging, mining and short line freight and passenger operations. Description:    Come join us for a layout tour of my Fern Creek and Western Garden Railroad that I built with my friends. This video […]

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A Big Boy on the North Western Railroad

Lionel Vision Line Union Pacific Big Boy 4014

Name:    Adam Matthews Railroad Name:    North Western Railroad Location:    Ohio Scale:    O Gauge Theme:    Freelanced Hi-Rail based on Northeast Ohio Description:    My Lionel Vision Line Big Boy 4014 hauls a string of 29 reefer cars around the new mainline on the Lower Level of the North Western Railroad. […]

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