Winston-Salem Southbound Series: Odds and ends

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Even in the midst of the extensive tracklaying effort on MRVP’s HO scale Winston-Salem Southbound layout, David Popp continued adding various benchwork and scenery elements. In this video, David Popp brings you up to date on those projects. […]

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Winston-Salem Southbound Series: Odds and ends

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Even in the midst of the extensive tracklaying effort on MRVP’s HO scale Winston-Salem Southbound layout, David Popp continued adding various benchwork and scenery elements. In this video, David Popp brings you up to date on those projects. […]

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Thank you gift: Model Railroads

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Thank you             for being a loyal Model Railroader newsletter subscriber! Enjoy your Model Train hobby to the fullest! Please enjoy a FREE gift: Room Size Model Railroad we’ve set aside just for you! See downloadable files for your FREE gift.   Continue to build your model train layout and […]

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Video: Walthers HO scale San Francisco Chief passenger train

Walthers HO scale San Francisco Chief passenger train

The Walthers HO scale San Francisco Chief models one of the famous passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Model Railroader received a sample of each one of the car types and locomotives offered in the series. A pair of F7 locomotives equipped with SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoders […]

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New model trains for the week of July 23, 2015

Bar Mills HO scale Boathouse at Cundy Harbor

HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP9M diesel locomotive. New paint schemes: Alaska RR, Boston & Maine, Chessie System (with Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks), Norfolk Southern (post-1982 company), and Union Pacific (“We can handle it” slogan on cab). One road number per scheme. All-wheel drive and electrical pickup, five-pole can motor with dual flyhweels, and […]

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HO scale Great Lakes & Western

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Name: Great Lakes & Western Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 37 x 48 feet Theme: freelanced Class 1 with standard gauge logging and narrow gauge branch lines Locale: Midwest to Western United States Era: 1940s to present day (depends on operating session) Style: walk-in Mainline run: approx. 800 feet Minimum radius: 30″ (main line), 26″ (narrow […]

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Video: Rapido Trains HO scale F40PH-2D

Rapido Trains HO scale F40PH2D

The Rapido Trains HO scale F40PH-2D features prototype specific detail and sound. The locomotive model features an ESU LokSound Select Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. Watch two F40PH-2D locomotives haul a push-pull passenger train on the Model Railroader staff’s Milwaukee, Racine, and Troy HO scale model railroad. […]

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Video: Rapido Trains HO scale F40PH-2D

Rapido Trains HO scale F40PH2D

The Rapido Trains HO scale F40PH-2D features prototype specific detail and sound. The locomotive model features an ESU LokSound Select Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. Watch two F40PH-2D locomotives haul a push-pull passenger train on the Model Railroader staff’s Milwaukee, Racine, and Troy HO scale model railroad. […]

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Model Railroad Operations: Using bell and whistle sounds

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Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page The command control sound effects offered on many new locomotive models are far more than just “cool” features. As Model Railroader magazine’s contributing editor Andy Sperandeo demonstrates in this video, the bell and whistle sounds can be used in a prototypical manner to […]

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Model Railroad Operations: Using bell and whistle sounds

locomotive on a model railroad layout

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page The command control sound effects offered on many new locomotive models are far more than just “cool” features. As Model Railroader magazine’s contributing editor Andy Sperandeo demonstrates in this video, the bell and whistle sounds can be used in a prototypical manner to […]

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