Ride along with me as the conductor of the Freight House Job to see how I get the work done. We start running south out of Humboldt Yard, and don’t stop until we’re just past the scale track switch south of Commerce Street. We open the switch and signal the engineer to back the train […]
Section: Modeling
VIDEO: Proxxon KGS 80 miter saw
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Dogbone in a bedroom
Layout designer: Terry Thompson Scale: O Layout size: 12 x 12 feet Track type: Lionel O Minimum curve: O-31 Originally appeared in the July 2012 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Click on the link below to view PDF’s for Dogbone in a Bedroom. Track Plan Adding Another Level Schematics Parts List […]
Industrial mite on a 4 x 8-foot O gauge track plan
Layout designer: Kent Johnson Scale: O Layout size: 4 x 8 feet Track type: Lionel FasTrack Minimum curve: O-36 Originally appeared in the May 2012 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan. Track plan Schematic Parts list […]
How to quickly weather O-gauge vehicles
With just a few supplies, Kent Johnson shows you how to quickly add dirt and dust to your vehicles. […]
Modeler’s Spotlight Video–Inside Cody’s Office for April 26, 2012
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Follow associate editor Cody Grivno as he shows you how to make a model railroad scenery base using cardboard strips and plaster cloth. You’ll also see the latest model railroading products to arrive at the Model Railroader offices, including an HO scale passenger […]
Modeler’s Spotlight Video–Inside Cody’s Office for April 26, 2012
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Follow associate editor Cody Grivno as he shows you how to make a model railroad scenery base using cardboard strips and plaster cloth. You’ll also see the latest model railroading products to arrive at the Model Railroader offices, including an HO scale […]
Bath & Hammondsport RR enginehouse plans
This enginehouse would fit on many model railroads set in the modern era The prototype structure is found along the Bath & Hammondsport Rail Corp., a shortline subsidiary of the Livonia, Avon & Lakeville RR, operates on the former Erie Lackawanna line between Wayland and Painted Post, N.Y. In addition, it also serves customers along […]
Corkscrew Gulch RR
Name: Corkscrew Gulch RR Layout designer: Bob McLaughlin Scale: HOn3 (1:87.1 on 3-foot gauge tracks) Size: 4 x 18 feet Prototype: freelance Locale: Colorado and New Mexico Era: 1940s through ’50s Style: walk-around Mainline run: 40 feet Minimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum grade: 4 percent Originally appeared in the June 2012 issue […]
Tennessee, Carolina & Coast
Name: Tennessee, Carolina & Coast Layout designer: Kent Roberts Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 28 x 32 feet Prototype: Tennessee Central Locale: eastern Tennessee Era: 1968 to 1972 Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 340 feet Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2 percent Originally appeared in the June 2012 issue of Model Railroader. […]
Video: MRC DCC sound decoders for Kato N scale F7 diesels
In the June 2012 Model Railroader managing editor David Popp describes how to install a Model Rectifier Corp. (MRC) no. 0001957 Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder into a Kato N scale F7A diesel locomotive model. Watch a demonstration of the DCC sound equipped models, as they haul the Kato N scale El Capitan around […]
Video: Con-Cor HO scale Burlington Zephyr
The streamlined Burlington Zephyr from Con-Cor International features a working Mars light and a Digitrax Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder. You can see and hear this new HO scale model train as it runs along the Model Railroader staff’s club layout, the Milwaukee Racine & Troy. […]
