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Classic Metal Works 1941/46 Chevrolet Delivery trucks are examples of the scale vehicles that are popular with model railroaders. Classic Metal Works/CMW Holdings Ltd., producer of the Mini Metals line of HO and N scale vehicles, has entered into a 5-year licensing agreement with Round 2 LLC. After that term CMW Holdings Ltd. may agree […]
A New York, New Haven & Hartford commuter train hustles past a station on the recently opened Gulliver’s Gate HO scale model railroad exhibit in New York. Photo courtesy Gulliver’s Gate/Pascal Perich A new HO scale model railroad exhibit opened in April. Gulliver’s Gate, a football field-sized display in New York’s Times Square, features well-known […]
With a mid-1960s mix-n-match consist, a Westbound Denver & Rio Grande Western hauls an equally varied manifest freight over the Golden Spike Train Club of Utah layout. Heavy equipment, pipe, and a string of empty hoppers and gondolas headed back for more black diamonds give this train some character. […]
With a mid-1960s mix-n-match consist, a Westbound Denver & Rio Grande Western hauls an equally varied manifest freight over the Golden Spike Train Club of Utah layout. Heavy equipment, pipe, and a string of empty hoppers and gondolas headed back for more black diamonds give this train some character. […]
This video describes the operations of Waverly Yard on the Willow Creek Railroad. The video focuses on the Yardmaster’s job in a typical operating session. Video by Rod Vance. […]
This video describes the operations of Waverly Yard on the Willow Creek Railroad. The video focuses on the Yardmaster’s job in a typical operating session. Video by Rod Vance. […]
Click on the link to download the part templates for the log-grasping lift. In the June 2017 Model Railroader, Andrew Taylor describes how he kitbashed an HO scale container loader into a log-grasping lift. Andrew scratchbuilt the claw-like lift from styrene. Click on the link below to download the templates for cutting out the parts. […]
Click on the links at left to download this image sized appropriately for your computer screen. Pat Ryan built and photographed this HO scale model railroad scene of the Norfolk & Western Powhatan Arrow rounding a river bend as a Virginian Ry. coal train rumbles across a steel truss bridge. Click on the links below […]
This video was shot during BNSF Days at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. The video features Boeing 737 fuselages and SkyBox cars. The entire train is from the collection of museum volunteer John Krueger. […]
Recently Model Railroader senior editor Dana Kawala had a chance to examine and operate a preproduction sample of Walthers new HO scale Plymouth ML-8 switcher. The model includes a SoundTraxx Digital Command Control (DCC) motor decoder with a CurrentKeeper capacitor system. See the switcher in action as it works a yard on the Model Railroader […]
This video was shot during BNSF Days at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. The video features Boeing 737 fuselages and SkyBox cars. The entire train is from the collection of museum volunteer John Krueger. […]
Recently Model Railroader senior editor Dana Kawala had a chance to examine and operate a preproduction sample of Walthers new HO scale Plymouth ML-8 switcher. The model includes a SoundTraxx Digital Command Control (DCC) motor decoder with a CurrentKeeper capacitor system. See the switcher in action as it works a yard on the Model Railroader […]
