In this visit to the Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s 10,000 square-foot building, you’ll get to explore the HO scale (1:87) model railroad that’s open to the public year-round (visit CMRM.org)! Based on an obscure prototype railroad routing about the Pacific Northwest in 1975, the main display features long trains, museum-quality scenery, captivating animations, and a […]
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Spaces to Places
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Olympia Projects
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In The Workshop
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Big Skies & Iron Rails
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Easy Christmas toy train layout — Midday Modeler 12-14-2022
This easy Christmas toy train layout could not be more simple. With buildings and toy train set from Aldi, Classic Toy Trains Editor Hal Miller and Production Editor Rene Schweitzer were able to quickly assemble a satisfying layout in almost no time. Watch the video for more! […]
Easy Christmas toy train layout — Midday Modeler 12-14-2022
This easy Christmas toy train layout could not be more simple. With buildings and toy train set from Aldi, Classic Toy Trains Editor Hal Miller and Production Editor Rene Schweitzer were able to quickly assemble a satisfying layout in almost no time. Watch the video for more! […]
Tortoise Switch Machine topside installation
In the all-new series playing exclusively on Trains.com Video, you’ll discover scores of expert techniques and useful tools for making your model railroading efforts easy, more efficient, and even fun! To get the series started, Model Railroader magazine Editor Eric White shares his process for installing a Tortoise by Circuitron Slow Motion Switch Machine to […]
Athearn HO scale General Electric Dash 9-44CW
Arriving in hobby shops now is the Athearn HO scale General Electric Dash 9-44CW diesel locomotive. The newly tooled model features a variety of railroad-specific details. Road names offered on the first run of the six-axle road locomotive are Canadian National (red, white, and black with “wet noodle” herald); Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (warbonnet); […]
ScaleTrains HO General Electric ES44AC
ScaleTrains has released a second run of its HO General Electric ES44AC diesel locomotive. The modern six-axle road unit is decorated for Canadian Pacific (with and without Lord Strathcona’s Horse stencil), Citirail (silver, blue, and yellow), CSX (armed forces, first responders, and law enforcement schemes in one road number each), Ferromex (original red, white, and […]
Big Skies & Iron Rails, Powder River Basin Coal Trains
There may be no better place than Logan Hill to highlight hard-working, heavy-haulin’ railroads in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. In this exploration of BSIR, Tom documents the parade of trains along the impressive, shared BNSF/Union Pacific four-track mainline through Thunder Basin National Grassland. While this territory is often maligned as “fly-over country”, Tom’s […]