Model railroad locomotive, freight car, passenger equipment, and detail announcements for October 28, 2021

Baltimore & Ohio Electro-Motive Division F7A and F7B diesel locomotives.

Product news Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading Model Railroader’s frequent product updates. Here are the products Model Railroader editors have news on for the week of October 28, 2021. HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division F7A and F7B diesel […]

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Tangent HO scale Greenville 86-foot high-cube boxcars

Tangent HO scale Greenville 86-foot high-cube boxcar

High-cube boxcars seemed to be everywhere in the 1970s, and thanks to Tangent Scale Models, highly detailed models of Greenville Steel Car Co. 86-foot high-cubes can roll on your HO layout, as well. These monster cars were products of the 1960s, when bigger was better and efficiency was the watchword of corporate America. Earlier methods […]

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WalthersProto HO scale EMD FP7 and F7B

WalthersProto HO scale EMD FP7 and F7B

Walthers has reissued its HO scale Electro-Motive Division FP7 and F7B diesel locomotives with new tooling and a LokSound 5 Digital Command Control sound decoder. And wow, is it a brute. The pair of locomotives together mustered almost 2⁄3 of a pound of drawbar pull in our benchwork test and wrestled 30 cars up a […]

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Review: Rapido HO scale New Look bus

Three Rapido New Look buses in varying paint schemes

Rapido has returned with the second release of its HO scale New Look buses, and this time the vehicles are packed with an array of intricate details and new features that come together to create a model that impresses with its levels of realism. The New Look buses were originally built by General Motors in […]

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John Vavra’s HO scale Santa Fe Lines

Track plan overview

Facts & features Name: Santa Fe Lines Scale: HO (1:87.1) and HOn3 (36″ narrow gauge) Size: 20 x 22 feet Prototype: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Locale: Northern Arizona/Southwestern Colorado Era: 1994 Style: walk-in Mainline run: 150 feet (Santa Fe) plus 110 feet (D&S) Minimum radius: 24″ (ATSF), […]

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Model railroad locomotive, freight car, passenger car, structure, detail, weathering supply, electronic/control, and book announcements for October 21, 2021

Maersk Sealand 40-foot high-cube refrigerated intermodal container.

Product news Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading Model Railroader’s frequent product updates. Here are the products Model Railroader editors have news on for the week of October 21, 2021. HO scale locomotives General Electric Dash 9-44CW diesel locomotive. […]

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Model railroad locomotive, freight car, passenger car, structure, detail, and weathering supply announcements for October 14, 2021

Fertilizer distribution facility.

Product news Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading Model Railroader’s frequent product updates. Here are the products Model Railroader editors have news on for the week of October 14, 2021. HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP38-2 diesel locomotive. CSX […]

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Model railroad locomotive, freight car, structure, weathering supplies, and magazine announcements for October 7, 2021

Great Northern Electro-Motive Division GP7 diesel locomotive.

Product news Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading Model Railroader’s frequent product updates. Here are the products Model Railroader editors have news on for the week of October 7, 2021. HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP7 diesel locomotive. Great […]

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Model railroad locomotive, freight car, passenger equipment, electronics/controls, and DVD announcements for September 30, 2021

Penn Central 89-foot flatcar with bi-level auto rack.

Product news Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading Model Railroader’s frequent product updates. Here are the products Model Railroader editors have news on for the week of September 30, 2021. HO scale locomotives Alco FA-1 and FB-1 diesel locomotives. […]

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Walthers HO scale Great Northern standard-cupola caboose

Great Northern caboose

A standard-cupola caboose is the latest addition to the WalthersMainline series of HO scale rolling stock. The ready-to-run car is offered with two cupola window styles, see-through plastic running boards, and body-mounted Proto-Max metal couplers. The prototype The WalthersMainline model is based on a Great Northern (GN) prototype built by the International Car Division of […]

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