David Smith’s 4 x 6-foot O gauge holiday display uses a pie-shaped platform to run his toy trains under a full-size Christmas tree. Learn how to build this attractive and compact display bursting with holiday cheer in the December issue. […]
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Jay Cain’s O-27 empire was one of the last O gauge layouts to be featured in our sister publication, Model Railroader. This new 12 x 30-foot O gauge layout reflects his wealth of experience in the hobby, along with his artistic and mechanical talents and vast imagination. […]
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Drop-in decoders make installing DCC in N scale locomotives about as easy as it gets. In this video David shows you how to install a TCS K4D6 decoder and K4LK lighting module in an N scale Kato MP36PH diesel locomotive. […]
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Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Broadway Limited’s new HO scale Y6b steam locomotive includes a lot of great features, including smoke, sound, Digital Command Control, and amazing pulling power. Watch it run on our HO scale layout in this video. […]
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Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Just in time for Halloween, Cody shows you two ways to strip paint from models in his latest visit to the “MR Laboratory.” He also shares some scary tips for preparing resin models, cutting coupler trip pins, and painting locomotive numberboards. And watchout […]
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This is a “track-level” tour of my HO scale Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie RR. It was shot with a Midland “XTC” camera set in a gondola. Video shot by Bob Wundrock […]
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This HO scale refrigerator car from Athearn Trains models a Fruit Growers Express (FGE) prototype. The model also includes a SoundTraxx decoder that reproduces the sounds of the refrigeration unit. Follow along as associate editor Cody Grivno shows how the car’s placement in a train affects the clarity of the sound. Cody also reviewed the […]
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Check out scenes from this North American themed HO scale shelf layout in Germany. You’ll big Union Pacific steam and diesel locomotives. Video shot by Andreas Rindermann. […]
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Union Pacific stack train with DPU running through the finished part (about 1/3) of Per Laursen’s modern HO scale model railroad. The model train layout theme is UP with BNSF trackage rights in east-central Texas. The main city of Waycross is fictional but the other towns Gladewater, Livingston, and LaGrange are made to resemble the […]
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Follow Train DMSW-08 as it pulls two empties from Beisser Lumber in Grimes on the Iowa Interstate’s Grimes Industrial Track. James McNab shot this video on his HO scale Iowa Interstate model railroad. See more of this modern-era model railroad, including a track plan, in Model Railroad Planning 2014! […]
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