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Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Follow along with MR Senior Editor Dana Kawala as he shows how to install and prepare a Fleischmann Roco Z21 control system for use operating DCC-equipped locomotives on an HO scale layout. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MRVP’s Kathy Millatt shifts her focus to making a snow-covered patch of grass along the railroad right-of-way on her HO scale (1:87.1) diorama. Follow along to see her techniques for crafting this realistic, frosty scenery accent! […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MRVP’s Kathy Millatt shifts her focus to making a snow-covered patch of grass along the railroad right-of-way on her HO scale (1:87.1) diorama. Follow along to see her techniques for crafting this realistic, frosty scenery accent! […]
Rail-Scale-Models acquired the design and production rights to Rusty Stumps Scale Models’ Laser-Cut Craftsman Kits product line in March 2019. The structure line features more than 20 buildings in HO, S, and O scales. The deal follows Rail-Scale-Models’ 2018 acquisition of Rusty Stumps Scale Models Laser-Cut Details line. Rusty Stumps Scale Models will continue to […]
Brian Olson’s N scale Union Pacific Excursion Train is now complete. A project more than a year in the making, he started with Kato’s 844 steam engine, later adding the tenders and the Spirit of Union Pacific 1943 diesel engine, and finally, Kato’s 7-car Excursion Car Set. The train in this video is on a […]
Henrik Akesson’s N scale version of the Erie Lackawanna RR in Pennsylvania is set during the late 1960s to the mid 1970s. It’s built in a spare bedroom around the walls in a dogbone on styrofoam. It features Peco code 80 track, Digitrax DCC, and a small copy of the Starrucca viaduct kitbashed from several […]
Henrik Akesson’s N scale version of the Erie Lackawanna RR in Pennsylvania is set during the late 1960s to the mid 1970s. It’s built in a spare bedroom around the walls in a dogbone on styrofoam. It features Peco code 80 track, Digitrax DCC, and a small copy of the Starrucca viaduct kitbashed from several […]
Brian Olson’s N scale Union Pacific Excursion Train is now complete. A project more than a year in the making, he started with Kato’s 844 steam engine, later adding the tenders and the Spirit of Union Pacific 1943 diesel engine, and finally, Kato’s 7-car Excursion Car Set. The train in this video is on a […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP39-2 diesel locomotive. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (“Kodachrome” and blue-and-yellow warbonnet); Burlington Northern (Cascade Green with nose stripes, four road numbers); CSX (D&H Guilford scheme patchout); Delaware & Hudson (Guilford scheme, four numbers); Missouri-Kansas-Texas (green and yellow, four numbers); and Soo Line (Candy Apple Red). Two numbers per scheme […]
Broadway Limited Imports N scale PRR T1 4-4-4-4 The T1 is equipped with magnetic knuckle couplers. Details like wire grab irons and train-phone system antenna add to the realism. I recently reviewed two N scale diesel locomotives from Broadway Limited Imports (BLI) featuring Paragon3 Digital Command Control (DCC) decoders with Rolling Thunder (March and May […]
Tom Knapp’s workshop now sports this N scale standard and narrow gauge model railroad test track that folds up. With the safety bolt retracted, Tom can lift the table out of its hangers and tip it up against the door. The test track folds flat against the door, where it’s held by a magnetic latch […]
Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Union Pacific late 4-6-6-4 Challenger steam locomotive HO scale locomotives Union Pacific late 4-6-6-4 Challenger steam locomotive. Clinchfield (painted black and graphite with coal tender in two road numbers) and Union Pacific (black and graphite with coal tender in two numbers, black and graphite with oil tender and smoke lifters […]
