How to use heat shrink tubing

Hand holding a piece of heat shrink tubing

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page When working on a wiring project, it’s a good idea to protect solder joints. Model Railroader associate editor shows you an easy method using heat-shrink tubing. […]

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A wood pellet fired Ruby

A wood pellet fired Ruby

Name: Eric Schade Forum User Name: captain perry Railroad Name: Visiting the Down East Light Railway Location: East Boothbay, Maine Scale: 1:13.7 (7/8 inch =1 foot) Description: Wood pellet fired modified Ruby I made a new boiler for this Ruby kit so it could burn solid fuel. She has a water pump working off the […]

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Kent Johnson rainy day run-by

In the September 2012 issue, Kent Johnson demonstrated how he accomplished the realistic backdrop for his O gauge railroad. Subscribers can watch this rainy day run-by on a moody wet morning on his layout. […]

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Video: Bachmann Trains HO scale Alco 2-6-0 Mogul

See and hear the Bachmann Trains Sound Value Alco 2-6-0 Mogul run along a stretch of the Model Railroader club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. You’ll get a demonstration of some of the sound effect features of the model’s factory-installed SoundTraxx Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder. […]

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Logging train on the W&Q

Homemade garden-scale live steam logging locomotive passes near a figure posed at a train depot.

Name:  Eric Schade Forum User Name: captain perry Railroad Name:  Winnegance & Quebec Location: Phippsburg, Maine Scale: 1:20.3 Theme:  Maine narrow gauge (logging today) Description: Follow along as my little scratch built logging engine “Tobias” takes a loop around the Winnegance and Quebec Railway. This engine is not a “BARGS” but is similar. It started […]

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Video: MTH HO scale Alco PA/PB set

The MTH Electric Trains HO Scale Alco PA/PB diesel locomotives feature the Digital Command System (DCS) and the Proto-Sound 3.0 system. See and hear the locomotives in action as they haul a streamlined passenger train around our model railroad. […]

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