Layout designer: Kent Johnson Scale: O Layout size: 5 x 9 feet Track type: MTH RealTrax Minimum curve: O-31 Originally appeared as an S gauge track plan in the January 2006 issue of Classic Toy Trains. The plan was redrawn incorporating MTH RealTrax track components. Be sure to account for the changes in height required […]
The goal of this six-part layout construction series is to provide new hobbyists with a 4 x 8-foot permanent O gauge layout using contemporary tracklaying, wiring, and scenery-making techniques. Since a toy train set can be a wonderful entry point for new hobbyists, the origins of this logging-themed layout stem from a current Lionel starter […]
You know I’m not sure if I ever saw a General Electric U25B diesel locomotive operating in revenue service. Oh, back in the day, I have a hazy memory of perhaps seeing one in a backshop deadline, although that may have been another four-axle GE model. But during my prime railfanning period (1978-85), I believe […]
Ballast King’s O gauge ballast spreading car is an interesting and really fun way to ballast your railroad’s right-of-way. […]
Ballast King’s O gauge ballast spreading car is an interesting and really fun way to ballast your railroad’s right-of-way. […]
The MTH Electric Trains HO scale bipolar features pantographs that raise and lower, remote opening couplers, and sound effects. Equipped with the MTH Digital Command System (DCS), the locomotive runs on direct-current (DC), Digital Command Control (DCC), and DCS layouts. Watch us run the locomotive on the Model Railroader club layout. […]
The MTH Electric Trains HO scale bipolar features pantographs that raise and lower, remote opening couplers, and sound effects. Equipped with the MTH Digital Command System (DCS), the locomotive runs on direct-current (DC), Digital Command Control (DCC), and DCS layouts. Watch us run the locomotive on the Model Railroader club layout. […]
MTH Electric Trains HO scale General Electric bipolar The General Electric bipolar 1B+D+D+1B is the latest heavy electric locomotive modeled by MTH in HO scale. Like the firm’s EP-4 and EF-4 “Little Joe” electrics, this HO bipolar has an array of sound effects and metal pantographs that raise and lower automatically or by remote control. […]
Layout designer: Neil Besougloff Scale: O Layout size: 5 x 15 feet Track type: MTH RealTrax Minimum curve: O-31 Originally appeared in the July 2007 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Click the links below to view PDF’s for Dust Dogbone Design. Track Plan Schematics Parts List […]
Layout designer: E. A. Engebretson and Kent Johnson Scale: O Layout size: 9 x 12 feet Track type: MTH RealTrax Minimum curve: O-31 Originally appeared in the December 2005 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan. Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Schematic phase 1 […]
Layout designer: Neil Besougloff Scale: O Layout size: 6 x 8 feet Track type: MTH Realtrax Minimum curve: O-31 Originally appeared in the July 2004 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan. Track plan Parts list […]
Layout designer: E.A. Engebretson Scale: O Layout size: 9 x 12 feet Track type: MTH RealTrax Minimum curve: O-72 Originally appeared in the February 2005 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan. Track plan Schematic Parts list Conversion chart […]
