Video: Walthers HO scale Metroliner

side of an Amtrak model train

Check out the Walthers HO scale Metroliner as it makes a run on the Model Railroader staff’s model train layout. Each of the cars features prototypical interior and exterior lighting as well as a SoundTraxx Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. […]

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Waiting game

Two Union Pacific trains idle side-by-side just west of Southwest Drive while waiting permission to continue east through the Cheyenne, Wyo., yard on Aug. 20, 2013. Photo by Michael S. Murray […]

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Poof

Canadian National train M345 bucks a drift at Leverett, Ill., in near-blizzard conditions on Jan. 6, 2014, with a pair of CSX ES44ACs in charge. Photo by Erik Coleman […]

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Crude by rail

  BNSF Railway ES44DC No. 7339 heads up train U-TNDNSD through East Dubuque, Ill., on Jan. 19, 2014. The crude oil train will be interchanged to Norfolk Southern in Chicago for delivery to an East Coast refinery. Photo by Matt Krause […]

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Afternoon switching with Whitewater Valley No. 25

Join Trains’ Steve Sweeney on a trip to the Whitewater Valley Railroad in December 2013. This tourist line in Southern Indiana boasts an assortment of rolling stock including cabooses and Stillwell commuter coaches. In this video, watch as Whitewater Valley crews use Lima-Hamilton No. 25 to switch cars in the afternoon before the railroad’s annual […]

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Pulp train in the snow

A diminutive garden scale live steam locomotive hauls a train through a snowy outdoor layout.

Name:  Eric Schade Forum User Name:  captain perry Railroad Name: Winnegance and Quebec Location: Phippsburg, Maine Scale:  1:13.7 Theme: Maine Narrow gauge Description:  My little SD Warren Engine, a 7/8″ scale modified Ruby, hauls some pulpwood on a snowy February day. This is the engine discussed in the October and December 2013 issues of Garden […]

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Low water

  Grand Canyon Railway F40s head north at Red Lake, Ariz., for the South Rim on July 5, 2013, across a dry creek. Photo by Michael T. Burkhart […]

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