C&NW 400 HO model Passenger Train (Part2) from GBA Productions on Vimeo. This video shows two Broadway Limited C&NW E7As pulling eight brass Nickle Plate passenger cars on my C&NW model railroad. This is an update from an earlier video, with more scenery completed. In this version, the 400 stops at Lakeview station to pick […]
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Red Oak Series: Installing fascia
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page One the quickest ways to give even a small layout a more finished appearance is to add a protective fascia around its perimeter. That’s exactly what David Popp did for Model Railroader magazine’s 3 x 7-foot N scale Red Oak layout. In this […]
Red Oak Series: Installing fascia
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page One the quickest ways to give even a small layout a more finished appearance is to add a protective fascia around its perimeter. That’s exactly what David Popp did for Model Railroader magazine’s 3 x 7-foot N scale Red Oak layout. In […]
Tracks Ahead: Season 9 – Bear Creek Railroad
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this segment from the hit PBS series Tracks Ahead, you’ll visit Jerry Mickey’s Bear Creek Railroad, a basement-filling O scale (three-rail) layout. […]
Tracks Ahead: Season 9 – Bear Creek Railroad
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this segment from the hit PBS series Tracks Ahead, you’ll visit Jerry Mickey’s Bear Creek Railroad, a basement-filling O scale (three-rail) layout. […]
Ohio’s railroads: 1946 and 2006
It’s almost a cliché to call Ohio a crossroads of railroading. The state was, literally, stitched in steel. Here, the New York-Chicago and New York-St. Louis routes of the Eastern trunk lines crossed paths with Pocahontas coal roads making a beeline to Lake Erie and nearby railroad gateways (Norfolk & Western got as far as […]
Rock Island FP7 at Joliet
FP7 No. 405 backs past Joliet (Ill.) Union Station to pick up a Rock Island suburban consist for a run into Chicago in fall 1951. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
Member video: Lakeview – an HO scale town on my C&NW model railroad
Lakeview – A small HO town on a C&NW model railroad from GBA Productions on Vimeo. A tour of a small town on my model railroad featuring Light Works USA neon animated signs, including Diner, Theater, Drugstore, Jesus Saves, OK Used Cars, Cafe, and Shamrock Hotel. […]
Member video: Lakeview – an HO scale town on my C&NW model railroad
Lakeview – A small HO town on a C&NW model railroad from GBA Productions on Vimeo. A tour of a small town on my model railroad featuring Light Works USA neon animated signs, including Diner, Theater, Drugstore, Jesus Saves, OK Used Cars, Cafe, and Shamrock Hotel. […]
One moment sooner!
Rare CPA-24-5 4500 (partially hidden by a signal box) and an F3B lead NYC’s James Whitcomb Riley north at Illinois Central’s 115th Street station; second car is a C&O Newport News–Chicago sleeper. Gordon E. Lloyd What makes a perfect photo? Perhaps first and foremost, “perfect” is an abstraction, perfection being generally defined in the mind […]
Monon’s Tippecanoe leaves Chicago
Two red and gray Monon F3 diesels approach the complex 21st Street interlocking in Chicago with the outbound Tippecanoe in 1950. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]