Debuting the Emma Nevada

Train on a garden railroad

Name: Mark Kimball Railroad Name: M&P RR Location: Midwest Scale: 1:29 standard gauge Theme: Short Line Description: M&P RR, a standard gauge short line in the Black Hills, has a replica of Disney Animator Ward Kimball’s Emma Nevada (a Bachmann Mogul). Just got battery power, and AirWire control, out for its first spin. […]

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Passenger service on the FC&W Railroad

passenger cars on a garden railroad

Name: Trevor Park Railroad Name: Fern Creek and Western Railroad Location: Santa Cruz, CA Scale: 1:20.3 Theme: Coastal Mountain Narrow Gauge Description: Engine #3, on lease from the South Pacific Coast Railway, leads a passenger train over the Fern Creek and Western Garden Railroad between the towns of Parkston and Ericsville. Complete with station stops […]

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Great Northern Pacific caboose view

Caboose view of model railroad

Ride along on a trip around Dan Flanagan’s Great Northern Pacific HO scale layout. He mounted a GoPro camera on a flatcar at boxcar height, with a caboose roof just under the lens, and put it at the end of a freight pulled by a 2-8-0 Consolidation. […]

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