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 O gauge ballast spreading car
ManuFacturer: MTH
Video: MTH HO scale bipolar electric
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. […]
Video: MTH HO scale bipolar electric
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
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. […]
Dusty dogbone design
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 […]
Three-stage plan that grows
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 […]
Long run, with a twist
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 […]
Model Builder via MTH
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 […]
Plan I: Layout for a not-so-big bedroom
Layout designer: Peter H. Riddle Scale: O Layout size: Around the wall point-to-point Track type: MTH Realtrax Minimum curve: O-31 Originally appeared in the May 2007 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan. Schematic Parts list […]
Plan III: Layout for a not-so-big bedroom
Layout designer: Peter H. Riddle Scale: O Layout size: Around the wall point-to-loop Track type: MTH Realtrax Minimum curve: O-31 Originally appeared in the May 2007 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan. Schematic Parts list […]
Room-sized branch line
Layout designer: E.A. Engebretson and Kent Johnson Scale: O Layout size: 9 x 11 feet Track type: MTH Realtrax Minimum curve: O-42 Originally appeared in the March 2008 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan. Track plan Schematic Parts list […]
A day of action on Terry Johnson’s O gauge layout
First we spray weeds and other things with MTH’s UP Weed Sprayer. Next the call goes out to transport the snow removal train up into the mountains where an imaginary snow has fouled the tracks. See the Lionel jet powered snow blower as well as an MTH Jordan Spreader. A fast freight pulled by MTH’s […]
