Download “Making them go,” Kevin Strong’s 2003 article describing how large-scale locomotives are powered. Look for an updated version of this article in the April 2010 issue. […]
How large-scale locomotives are powered
Section: Modeling
Video: HO scale East Broad Top/Pennsylvania Railroad layout
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Watch trains run through detailed scenes on Don Shook’s HO scale East Broad Top/Pennsylvania Railroad layout. The layout features many scratchbuilt structures as well as standard gauge, narrow gauge, and dual gauge track. […]
Video: HO scale East Broad Top/Pennsylvania Railroad layout
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Watch trains run through detailed scenes on Don Shook’s HO scale East Broad Top/Pennsylvania Railroad layout. The layout features many scratchbuilt structures as well as standard gauge, narrow gauge, and dual gauge track. […]
The N scale Salt Lake Route project layout part 2
One interesting feature of this Model Railroader project layout are the folding legs that support the benchwork. Dick Christianson, the layout builder and Model Railroader magazine’s former managing editor, gives you a demonstration of how the folding legs work. He’ll also discuss the fascia and backdrop material that he used for the N scale Salt […]
The N scale Salt Lake Route project layout part 2
One interesting feature of this Model Railroader project layout are the folding legs that support the benchwork. Dick Christianson, the layout builder and Model Railroader magazine’s former managing editor, gives you a demonstration of how the folding legs work. He’ll also discuss the fascia and backdrop material that he used for the N scale Salt […]
Video: History according to Hediger 9
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page The HO scale Ohio Southern, built by Senior Editor Jim Hediger, is not only one of the first multi-level model railroads, the layout is also one of the first to use a helix. Listen to Jim recall how he built his first helix […]
John Ruh’s O gauge tribute to Route 66
Route 66 – the two-lane highway that winds its way from Chicago to Los Angeles – has been immortalized in popular music, literature, and television. Who doesn’t remember the Joads making their way west on the Mother Road of the U.S. in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath or Tod and Buz tooling along in […]
Modeler’s spotlight video for February 11, 2010 — Inside Cody’s office
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page This week Model Railroader Associate Editor Cody Grivno celebrates the 2 year anniversary of the Modeler’s Spotlight video series with a trip south of the border. Along with a look at some new model railroading products, Cody will show you an easy way […]
Modeler’s spotlight video for February 11, 2010 — Inside Cody’s office
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page This week Model Railroader Associate Editor Cody Grivno celebrates the 2 year anniversary of the Modeler’s Spotlight video series with a trip south of the border. Along with a look at some new model railroading products, Cody will show you an easy way […]
Denver, Front Range & Western
See these two articles on Doug Tagsold’s Denver, Front Range & Western. Doug Tagsold’s Denver, Front Range & Western Railfanning in Colorado […]
Compact coved backdrop corners
Good lighting helps Flemming Örneholm hide the compact covered corner in his background. Coved corners help to reinforce the feeling of great distance that’s produced by a good backdrop. Large layouts with plenty of real estate often use wide, gently curved panels to make these inside corners disappear. But modelers with small layouts can’t afford […]
Scenery
Scenic baseA layout’s scenic base is the foundation for all of its scenery, including roads, grass, trees, and rocks. An inexpensive scenery base can be made using a lightweight support structure, such as cardboard strips glued together, covered with layers of plaster-soaked gauze or paper towels. Another type of base you can use is made […]
