News & Products for the week of July 15, 2021

PIKO America Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe remote-control starter set.

Large scale sets Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe remote-control starter set. Includes a 0-6-0T saddletank steam locomotive, two-bay offset-side hopper, caboose, R/C controller, pocket remote, power clamps, and circle of indoor/outdoor R1 track. Locomotive has five-pole can-type motor, detailed cab interior with engineer figure, and sliding pickup shoes. All models have hook-and-loop couplers. $479.99. September […]

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News & Products for the week of June 15, 2021

Atlas Wisconsin & Southern Electro-Motive Division SD40-2 diesel locomotive.

O gauge locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD40-2 diesel locomotive. Burlington Northern (Cascade Green and black, Chicago & North Western (Falcon Service scheme), CSX (gray, blue, and yellow), Milwaukee Road (orange and black with billboard lettering), Pan Am Rys. (dark blue and white), and Wisconsin & Southern (40th Anniversary scheme, one road number). Two numbers per scheme […]

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Walthers announces next HO scale name train

The General Train from Walthers

Wm. K. Walthers Inc. announced that Pennsylvania RR’s The General will be its next HO scale name train. The train, part of the WalthersProto line, will consist of 11 ready-to-run cars, including four available in plastic for the first time. The models will be offered in two versions: With factory-printed names or numbers as appropriate […]

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LGB extends raffle until Aug. 31, 2021

Watercolor painting of Santa Fe's Super Chief train

LGB (Märklin), 1406 Creek Trail Dr, Jefferson City, MO 65109, is giving away an original James R. Mann watercolor of the Santa Fe Super Chief to celebrate the release of its Santa Fe A and B-units. The company is extending the raffle for the painting until Aug. 31, 2021. Mann’s painting will have the same […]

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Former Cotton Belt bridge for sale in north Texas

View down through truss bridge

DALLAS — Dallas Area Rapid Transit has regularly sold off end-of-life buses or excess parcels of land. But this time the agency has a piece of railroading history on the market: a bridge. Removal of the bridge is required to accommodate DART’s new Silver Line Regional Rail project. Currently, the bridge is a single-track truss […]

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Nickel Plate Road 765 to return to Ohio for Steam in the Valley

Steam locomotive crosses waterway on bridge

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 will return to the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad for Steam in the Valley on Sept. 3, 10-12 and 17-19. Each year, except for 2020, Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad works with the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society to bring the steam locomotive to Cuyahoga Valley National Park, […]

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Model railroad locomotive, freight car, structure, electronic, and club offering announcements for July 15, 2021

Rapido Trains General Electric U25B diesel locomotive in varying paint schemes.

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 July 15, 2021. HO scale locomotives  2-6-0 Mogul steam locomotive. Atchison, Topeka […]

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Meet the Modeler: Tony Koester

Midwestern scene on a model railroad

What was your first train set (or locomotive)? I got a Lionel O-27 train set powered by a 2-6-4 when I was all of three years old. Dad had just come home from the Army and times were tough, but little Tony really wanted a train for Christmas. Dad kept checking at the post office […]

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Biden executive order prods STB to examine rail access, competition

Surface Transportation Board logo

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday afternoon that encourages the Surface Transportation Board to adopt rail regulatory reforms that shippers have long sought to promote competition. Among the potential changes sure to rile freight railroads: Rules that would permit reciprocal switching for captive shippers and removal of so-called bottleneck restrictions that […]

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Model railroad locomotive, freight car, passenger car, structure, detail, and electronics announcements for July 8, 2021

General Electric Lehigh Valley U23B 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 July 8, 2021. HO scale locomotives  General Electric U23B diesel locomotive. New […]

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