Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this episode of IMRR, host Steve Brown works on his N scale Port Smith to paint, weather, and ballast the trackwork, add a grade crossing, repaint the pavement, install structures, and lay down the base for the river. All this is done […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MRVP’s Kathy Millatt shares a simple way to model an icy shoreline on her HO scale (1:87.1) wintry diorama. Even better, Kathy’s technique doesn’t require a single drop of resin to create ultra-realistic frozen effects! […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MRVP’s Kathy Millatt shares a simple way to model an icy shoreline on her HO scale (1:87.1) wintry diorama. Even better, Kathy’s technique doesn’t require a single drop of resin to create ultra-realistic frozen effects! […]
What could you have seen at the annual (all scales) Railroad Hobby Show held in Springfield, Massachusetts, on January 25-26, 2020? Follow along as MR associate editor Eric White shares his walk-and-talk tour of the various buildings of the Eastern States Expo Fairgrounds, each housing all sorts of vendors, displays, layouts, and so much more! […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD40-2. BNSF Ry. (four Burlington Northern patchouts); Burlington Northern (as-delivered scheme); Chessie System (Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks), Chicago & North Western (Stagecoach and Zito Yellow schemes); CSX (Chessie System patchout, “S” scheme, and YN2 scheme); and Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern (standard blue-and-yellow and Mt. Rushmore schemes). Multiple road numbers […]
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HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division FP7, F7A, F7B, and F9B diesel locomotives. Chicago & North Western (two single FP7s and two FP7/F7B sets in yellow-and-green scheme), Rock Island (FP7 in silver-and- maroon scheme and two FP7 sets [one each in silver-and-maroon and gray-and-maroon schemes]), Southern Pacific (FP7, F7B, FP7/F7B set, and FP7/F7A set in “black […]
Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Chesapeake & Ohio class J3a Greenbrier 4-8-4 steam locomotive HO scale locomotives Chesapeake & Ohio class J3a Greenbrier 4-8-4 steam locomotive. In-service version (without smoke deflectors in five road numbers, with in one number), excursion service (Chesapeake & Ohio, Chessie System Railroads, and Family Lines Rail System, one number each), […]
The 2020 Amherst Railway Society Railroad Hobby Show is being held Jan. 25 and 26 at The Eastern States Exposition Fairgrounds in West Springfield, Mass. The two-day show, now in its 52nd year, features model railroad manufacturers, railroad historical societies, vendors, and clinics. Athearn Genesis 2.0 HO scale EMD SD80MAC diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives […]
RailSmith N scale Tippecanoe Rapids sleeper The partitions and seating arrangements match prototype plans. Pennsylvania RR N scale modelers can now add an accurate re-creation of Pullman-Standard (PS) sleeper Tippecanoe Rapids to their passenger car rosters thanks to Lowell Smith’s Signature Series of RailSmith cars. The prototype. As part of its post-World War II modernization […]
HO scale locomotives General Electric ES44AC diesel locomotive. BNSF Ry. (Heritage III in five road numbers, one number with primer repairs, one number with silver plow, and two numbers with replacement Nathan K3LA air horn), Canadian Pacific (as delivered in two numbers, with Hi-Ad trucks and Positive Train Control antennas in four numbers), and Union […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Host David Popp is back for more Q&A in 2020. In this episode of Ask MRVP, he addresses model railroading topics ranging from trackwork to painting to freight/passenger car modeling to prototype railroading practices …and so much more! […]
