Now that the rocks for our Thin Branch project railroad are in place, it’s time to paint them. David shares an easy 3-step painting technique that produces realistic rock outcroppings. […]
Thin Branch Series: Painting rocks
Scale: HO Scale
3D Track Plans: The 4×8 HO scale Cumberland & Ohio
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Looking for a small layout with an expansive Appalachian feel? The 4 x 8 foot HO scale Cumberland & Ohio plan provides just that! This layout includes two towns, a mine, and a lot of operation in a compact space. […]
3D Track Plans: The 4×8 HO scale Cumberland & Ohio
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Looking for a small layout with an expansive Appalachian feel? The 4 x 8 foot HO scale Cumberland & Ohio plan provides just that! This layout includes two towns, a mine, and a lot of operation in a compact space. […]
MTH HO scale GP35 diesel locomotive
MTH HO scale GP35 diesel locomotive A horn blast and the rumble of a 567 diesel signal the arrival of this HO scale GP35 locomotive from MTH. The model’s proprietary Digital Command System (DCS) features realistic sound on direct-current (DC), Digital Command Control (DCC), and DCS layouts. The prototype. Between October 1963 and January 1966, […]
Walthers HO C&O Chessie Club car
Walthers HO scale C&O Chessie Club car A newly tooled lunch-counter lounge car is part of Walthers HO scale Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Pere Marquette, which is the firm’s latest name train series. The prototype trains were introduced by the C&O in 1946 as America’s first postwar streamliners. Two matching trains ran between Detroit and […]
Atlas HO scale FMC 5,077-cubic-foot-capacity boxcar
Atlas HO scale FMC 5,077-cubic-foot-capacity boxcar Price: $34.95 (undecorated, $29.95) Manufacturer Atlas Model Railroad Co. 378 Florence Ave. Hillside, NJ 07205 www.atlasrr.com Era: Late 1975 to present Road names Early: Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay, Atlantic & Western, Burlington Northern, and Railbox. Late: Lake Erie, Franklin & Clarion; Cadiz RR; Escanaba & Lake Superior; and […]
Video: Walthers Trainline HO scale Railtech DCC model train set
This ready-to-run train set from Walthers includes everything you need to get started in the model railroading hobby. The set features a locomotive, freight cars, caboose, track, and a Digital Command Control (DCC) and sound system. In this video, Model Railroader associate editor Steve Otte shows you how to set up and operate this ready-to-run […]
Video: Walthers Trainline HO scale Railtech DCC model train set
This ready-to-run train set from Walthers includes everything you need to get started in the model railroading hobby. The set features a locomotive, freight cars, caboose, track, and a Digital Command Control (DCC) and sound system. In this video, Model Railroader associate editor Steve Otte shows you how to set up and operate this ready-to-run […]
Cody’s Workshop: Episode 3 – April 2013
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Welcome back to Cody’s Workshop. In episode 3, Cody shows you how to get a realistic weathered finish for your flatcar decks. He also gives you some tips on using punches to make drillbit starter holes, and answers a variety of viewer mail. […]
Cody’s Workshop: Episode 3 – April 2013
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Welcome back to Cody’s Workshop. In episode 3, Cody shows you how to get a realistic weathered finish for your flatcar decks. He also gives you some tips on using punches to make drillbit starter holes, and answers a variety of viewer mail. […]
Build a liquid-asphalt transfer terminal
Pelle Søeborg shows how he scratchbuilt a liquid-asphalt transfer terminal in the June 2013 Model Railroader. Back in the February 1994, Clyde Maybee Jr. showed how he modeled the industry on his layout. Click on the link to download a PDF of the original article. […]
Port Trenton, Baltimore & Ohio Paquettin Division
Name: Port Trenton, Baltimore & Ohio Paquettin Division (2013, original version) Layout designer: Mike Tricker Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 16′-6″ x 16′-6″ Prototype: Baltimore & Ohio Locale: Appalachian Mountains and New Jersey waterfront Style: partial mushroom Era: early to mid-1950s Mainline run: 78 feet (branchline run: 33 feet) Minimum radius: 30″ (main line), 15″ (waterfront […]
