Life along the Winnegance & Quebec

Garden scale figure operating a similar sized hand car.

Name:    Eric Schade Forum User Name:    captain perry Railroad Name:    Winnegance and Quebec Location:    Phippsburg, Maine Scale:    1:13.7 (7/8″=1 foot) Theme:    Maine two foot gauge Description:    Life in small town Maine is full of interesting characters. you see some of them as the train snakes through the woods and over the covered bridges. Most of […]

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Life along the Winnegance & Quebec

Garden scale figure operating a similar sized hand car.

Name:    Eric Schade Forum User Name:    captain perry Railroad Name:    Winnegance and Quebec Location:    Phippsburg, Maine Scale:    1:13.7 (7/8″=1 foot) Theme:    Maine two foot gauge Description:    Life in small town Maine is full of interesting characters. you see some of them as the train snakes through the woods and over the covered bridges. Most of […]

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New York MTA opens subway simulator to public NEWSWIRE

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Visitor Peter Diamond runs the simulator. Joseph M. Calisi NEW YORK – Always wanted to operate a subway train? Here is your chance. Subway fans now have the opportunity to operate a first-of-its-kind subway simulator. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has created a realistic train simulator experience that the average railfan can now enjoy. The simulator […]

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Delaware-Lackawanna signs five-year operating agreement extension NEWSWIRE

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Delaware-Lackawanna SCRANTON, Pa. – The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad has reached a five-year operating lease agreement extension with the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority. The agreement covers more than 90 miles of track in Lackawanna, Wayne, Monroe, and Northampton counties in northeast Pennsylvania. At its May meeting, the Authority’s board voted unanimously to extend the agreement, set […]

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Alco and Baldwins at Rutland, Vt.

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Lots of switching occurs around the slow-speed trackage at the junction between the Green Mountain line to Bellows Falls (left) and the former Bennington branch in Rutland, Vt. Note the Delaware & Hudson Baldwin Sharknoses at right. Karl Zimmermann photo […]

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Member video: C&O and Loup Creek Branch Line

C&O and Loup Creek Branch Line

A video description of the features on my HO layout. It includes a working coal loader that runs loads to the two coaling towers on the layout. It is a prototypical depiction of the C&O and Loup Creek Branch Line interchange at Thurmond, West Virginia. It is an around-the-wall, shelf-style layout in a 10×12 bedroom. […]

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Member video: C&O and Loup Creek Branch Line

C&O and Loup Creek Branch Line

A video description of the features on my HO layout. It includes a working coal loader that runs loads to the two coaling towers on the layout. It is a prototypical depiction of the C&O and Loup Creek Branch Line interchange at Thurmond, West Virginia. It is an around-the-wall, shelf-style layout in a 10×12 bedroom. […]

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