Video: ScaleTrains.com N scale General Electric C44-9W

Part of the firm’s Rivet Counter series, the ScaleTrains.com N scale General Electric C44-9W is loaded with prototype-specific detail and comes factory equipped with an ESU LokSound decoder. See and hear the N scale Dash 9 haul a freight train along the main line of the Model Railroader staff’s N scale Canadian Canyons layout. […]

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Remembering Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo freight trains

Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo steam locomotive with freight train.

  All this month — July 2020 — Classic Trains editors are celebrating the heritage, history, and images of the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway. Please enjoy this photo gallery of images from the David P. Morgan Library archives at Kalmbach Media that include TH&B diesel- and steam-powered freight trains through time. […]

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New model trains for the week of July 16, 2020

blue caboose with windows

See the latest HO, N, Z, and large scale model railroad products from Broadway Limited Imports, DCCconcepts, ScaleTrains.com, and more! HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division F units. F3A: Southern Pacific (orange and black, one road number). F7A and F7B: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (F7A, F7B, and F7A-B set in one number each); Great Northern […]

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New model trains for the week of July 9, 2020

Three sheathed boxcars

HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP38-2 diesel locomotive. Canadian National (red, white, and black with Illinois Central reporting marks); Canadian Pacific (with large herald in two road numbers, small herald in one number); Illinois Central Gulf (orange-and-white and orange-and-gray schemes, two numbers each); Missouri Pacific (1972 as-delivered paint scheme); Soo Line (red “SOO” lettering on […]

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How to switch model railroad freight cars

Illustration of switching basics for model trains

Do you know how to switch model railroad freight cars? Operations, once considered a quirky art practiced by few, has become commonplace on today’s model railroads. As interest in operations increases the need for “boomers” – operators, in other words – has also increased. Therefore you may find yourself pressed into service on a new […]

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How-to Library: Signaling with JMRI, Part 2

A tv screen with JMRI logo

The JMRI signaling series continues with MRVP’s Ben Lake taking a closer look at the Layout Editor tool within PanelPro software. On the Canadian Canyons N scale layout, Ben shares his process and insights for using Layout Editor to link various components (turnouts, track segments, etc.) of a signaling system. […]

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