AMS hopper car

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Marc Horovitz 1:32 scale, gauge-1 hopper car AMS (Division of Accucraft Trains) 33260 Central Ave. Union City CA 94587 Price: $89.40 Website: www.accucraft.com 1:32 scale, gauge 1, three-bay hopper car; plastic body; metal trucks, fully sprung; operating scale knuckle couplers; blackened wheels; non-opening hopper doors; minimum radius, 48″. Dimensions: Length, 155/8″; width, 4″; height 45/8″. […]

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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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Steaming in the snow

train on a snowy garden railroad

Name: Shawn Viggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Live steam Regner Konrad steaming during a spring snow. […]

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Summertime logging

train carrying logs on a garden railroad

Name: Shawn Vigggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Summertime logging with live steam Regner Class A Climax and scratch built log cars and log loader. […]

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Operator positions on the SJR&P Railroad

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A mixed freight crosses the water-lily filled Lake Sarah Jane on its way to Bat Yard. While much of their SJR&P runs through their backyard forest, Deb and Stan Ames view this beautiful viaduct from their cedar deck (the crew lounge). Thelma Shoneman An oil train from Riley snakes down the railway on its way […]

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