The Walthers HO scale San Francisco Chief models one of the famous passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Model Railroader received a sample of each one of the car types and locomotives offered in the series. A pair of F7 locomotives equipped with SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoders […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP9M diesel locomotive. New paint schemes: Alaska RR, Boston & Maine, Chessie System (with Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks), Norfolk Southern (post-1982 company), and Union Pacific (“We can handle it” slogan on cab). One road number per scheme. All-wheel drive and electrical pickup, five-pole can motor with dual flyhweels, and […]
Free software available online, such as Sketchup, can be used to design models that are produced by 3-D printing services like Shapeways. Alex Marchand followed this path to model a CSX class U-13 phosphate hopper in N scale. When I was in high school in the late ’90s, I saw a TV show that ran […]
The Rapido Trains HO scale F40PH-2D features prototype specific detail and sound. The locomotive model features an ESU LokSound Select Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. Watch two F40PH-2D locomotives haul a push-pull passenger train on the Model Railroader staff’s Milwaukee, Racine, and Troy HO scale model railroad. […]
The Rapido Trains HO scale F40PH-2D features prototype specific detail and sound. The locomotive model features an ESU LokSound Select Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. Watch two F40PH-2D locomotives haul a push-pull passenger train on the Model Railroader staff’s Milwaukee, Racine, and Troy HO scale model railroad. […]
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FOR THAT COAL HAULING LAYOUT: The MTH RailKing Imperial no. 30-1641-1 Pennsylvania RR L1 2-8-2 Mikado is in stores now. The locomotive features O-31 operation and has a die-cast metal shell and tender, directional lighting, firebox glow, can-style motor, smoke unit, tender-mounted coil coupler, and the ProtoSound 3.0 sound and command system for $449.95. For […]
Just Plug light system from Woodland Scenics Prices: $19.99 (no. JP5770 power supply), $19.99 (no. JP5700 lights & hub set), $9.99 (no. JP5725 auxiliary switch) Who doesn’t have buildings on their layout that lack illumination? I have a few old Plasticville structures as well as some buildings I made with Design Preservation Models panels that, […]
Lionel O gauge GP7 Price: $329.99 (no. 38827) Burlington Route Features: O-31 operation, metal frame and die-cast metal trucks and couplers. It is equipped with dual motors, coil couplers (controllable only via LionChief Plus remote), a fan-driven smoke unit, RailSounds RC with locomotive sounds and announcements, can be operated in conventional mode (though some LionChief […]
MTH O gauge RailKing SD9 Price: $329.95 (The no. 30-20196-1) Chessie System (B&O) Features: O-31 operation, has a metal frame, and die-cast metal trucks and couplers, two can-style motors, an operating smoke unit, and coil couplers, and ProtoSound 3.0 command and sound system. Current run road names: Chessie System (B&O), Great Northern, Norfolk Southern, and […]
The Woodland Scenics Just Plug lighting system is truly plug and play. You can connect up to four LEDs into each Light Hub. You want lights on your layout, but the thought of designing circuits, stripping wire, tedious soldering, and mounting lights just turns you off. Well, you don’t have to go through all that […]
Kato HO scale GP35 diesel locomotive The 2015 version of Kato’s GP35 features a printed-circuit board with an eight-pin socket for a Digital Command Control decoder. The Kato HO scale GP35 features many separately applied detail parts including the handrails and air horn. After a long hiatus, the Electro-Motive Division GP35 diesel locomotive has returned […]
