Pruning Simplified: A Visual Guide to 50 Trees and Shrubs By Steven Bradley Published by Timber Press 133 SW 2nd Ave. #450 Portland OR 97204 Timberpress.com 8″ x 10″ Softcover 192 pages Most garden railroaders who have planted scale trees and shrubs as well as tidy groundcovers have tried their hand at cutting back excessive […]
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Name: Thomas Olsen Railroad Name: “Thomasville” or “PaPaT’s Train Room” Location: Birmingham Scale: O Theme: 1950s Small Southern Town Description: Scaled down layout following our move from Georgia to Alabama six years ago. Reduced from 15′ x 23′ to an 11′ x 16′ layout. […]
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Name: William Stanley Railroad Name: Rudolph Express Location: Spokane Scale: O Theme: Christmas & Rudolph Description: Folks of Stanleyville watch Rudolph Special go thru town. […]
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For nearly 30 years, when we lived in upstate New York, I would occasionally watch my husband, Lou, making trees for his HO scale West Hoosic Division RR. Over the years, together with his friend, Pete Darling, he managed to build and plant more than 4,000 HO scale hardwoods on his 22 x 26-foot layout. […]
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Menards exclusive Rocket Freight train set is led by a Bachmann HO scale GP40-2R diesel. Many of us got our start in the hobby with a train set like the new Bachmann HO scale Rocket Freight set, with its sturdy diesel locomotive, colorful cars, and oval of snap-together track. This set includes everything a new […]
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Athearn HO scale CN GP9 diesel Our review sample included a SoundTraxx Tsunami2 decoder mounted above the Athearn Genesis mechanism. The model also features all-wheel drive and pickup. Both of our CN review samples feature roadname- and roadnumber-specfic details and accurate paint schemes. Superdetailed Electro-Motive GP9 diesel locomotives return to the Athearn Genesis series in […]
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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 […]
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ExactRail HO scale Berwick 7440 boxcar The model also features a detailed underbody. The Berwick Forge & Fabricating 7,440-cubic-foot-capacity boxcar is the latest addition to Exact Rail’s HO scale Platinum line. The plastic model features a one-piece body with separate roof, factory-applied details, and wire uncoupling levers. The model. Our sample is decorated as Penn […]
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Name: William Stanley Railroad Name: Rudolph Express Location: Spokane Scale: O Theme: Christmas & Rudolph Description: Folks of Stanleyville watch Rudolph Special go thru town. […]
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Engines & rolling stock Accucraft, 3260 Central Ave, Union City CA 94587 is selling a 1:32 scale Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) sleeper car under the J&M Models brand. These cars will be made from brass, have interior lights, and feature four different car numbers as used in the famous Blue Train. Price: $950 each […]
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Accucraft coach PIKO America catalog Bachmann Thomas and Friends items Engines & rolling stock Accucraft, 3260 Central Ave, Union City CA 94587 is selling a 1:32 scale Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) sleeper car under the J&M Models brand. These cars will be made from brass, have interior lights, and feature four different car numbers […]
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Tony describes how he kitbashed the feed mill, pictured on the left, of his portable O scale Wingate model railroad. Using parts from two Atlas O Ace Feed & Supply kits, Tony rearranged the side walls and added a second story turned sideways to create a more realistic footprint and to disguise the kit’s all-too-familiar […]
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