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Model Railroader Quick Tips: Isopropyl alcohol for cleaning model train track

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The Readers’ Choice RR urban extension

The Readers’ Choice Railroad adds street trackage and urban switching with this 3 x 8-foot extension to our O gauge layout […]

Modelers Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office July 14, 2011

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Associate editor Cody Grivno weathered this Proto 2000 from Walthers 0-8-0 steam locomotive for the Model Railroader Virginian Ry. HO scale project layout. Cody will show you some of his favorite techniques. You’ll also see some new model railroading products, including a demonstration […]

Turbine power all the way

High speed in New England in the 1970s meant these turbine-powered trainsets built by United Aircraft, which sprinted between Boston and New York from 1969 to 1976. The two Turbotrains (Amtrak later bought a third set from VIA Rail Canada) achieved the route’s best-ever timings — 3 hours and 48 minutes between Boston and New […]

Video: Athearn Trains N scale F59PHI and cars

We tested the Athearn Trains N scale EMD F59PHI diesel locomotive on our Salt Lake Route model train layout. Equipped with a SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder, the locomotive looked and sounded great hauling a set of Athearn N scale Bombardier bi-level commuter cars. […]

Winding through wind

Union Pacific C44AC-CTE No. 5374 leads a mixed-freight train past Milepost 366.7 past wind turbine generators on its way to Monolith, Calif., on April 25, 2011. William Steck photo […]

Streaming video of action on the Readers’ Choice RR

This grade-crossing scene is a perfect example of effectively combined basic scenery elements. We concluded the project by adding small details that give the 4 x 8-foot layout the Appalachian-theme requested by you. But because we weren’t quite ready to stop building, we made plans to add an extension to the layout. Catch a glimpse […]

Modeler’s Spotlight Video–Inside Cody’s Office for June 30, 2011

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page This week associate editor Cody Grivno answers some of your questions concerning the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy, the Model Railroader club layout. Topics include layout wiring suggestions and a question about the rolling boxcar in the opening scene. New model railroading products highlighted […]