Name: Shawn Viggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain RR Location: Wantage, NJ Scale: 1:20.3 Theme: Logging Description: Steam in spring snow […]
Steaming in the spring snow
Section: Member Videos
Classic Lionel orange and blue on a high-rail layout
Name: Peter Martens Forum User Name: Peter_J_M Railroad Name: Lionel Lines Location: The Silver Rail Club’s home based layout Scale: O gauge Theme: Classic Lionel colors on the high-rail! Description: Classic orange and blue colors make up these highly collectible train sets! Released individually during the 80’s and 90’s, each freight consist made up an […]
Battery-powered 24″ N-scale model railroad with waterfall
In this video, I show how I built a 24″ diameter N-scale micro layout that is battery powered, and features steep mountain terrain and a waterfall. The layout uses Kato Unitrack and runs off of two 9V batteries. The layout was built for a store display, and features a push-button control on the front for […]
Boston & Maine Railroad Switching on the Lowell, Mass., Mill Spur
Boston & Maine Alco 1187 switches out the Mill Spur while crossing the Pawtucket Canal bridges in Lowell, Mass., on Steve Tello’s HO-scale layout. […]
Operating the Santa Cruz Northern, Part 2
In this installment, we’ll take a look at SCN Train 202, the Eastbound Perishable. […]
Model railroad operations
In this video, Bob Wundrock shows how he assembles a train for operations on his developing layout. […]
HO scale passenger train
Watch this HO scale passenger train as it passes through a crossing on Louis Showers’ freelanced Erie-Lackawanna layout. The engines are F2 ABA Bachmann locomotives with sound. The cars are IHC smooth side passenger cars to which he added body-mounted couplers, interiors, lights, and Walther’s Proto power capable trucks. […]
Wintergreen Junction
Welcome to Wintergreen Junction, a fictional place located somewhere in the great north, snow covered nearly year round. In reality, this is a new 3 x 3-foot N scale layout built between Thanksgiving and Christmas this past year. Although unfinished (ran out of time), this layout will continue to evolve in the years ahead. Enjoy […]
B&O 195 box cab lives again
Today we find B&O # 195 box cab delivering two tank cars to the Criswell Oil Company and picking up the empties. Model is a Roundhouse from which the internal mechanisms and trucks have been removed. They are replaced with Stanton power and non-powered trucks from North West Short Line. Added features include an ESU […]
A scratchbuilt rotary snowplow gets to work
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Crossing US Highway 6 in Iowa City on the HO scale Iowa Interstate RR
Iowa Interstate RR no. 715 leads Train ICSW-22 across US Highway 6 in Iowa City on the HO scale IAIS Hills Industrial Spur. More information on The Hills Line at http://thehillsline.com. Video by James McNab. […]
The Big Boy up close and personal
A bit of a departure from my model railroad, but worth the journey to experience the real thing … and I mean EXPERIENCE! Count the rivets … smell the tar … feel the steam … vibrate with the ground … as THE BIG BOY rolls by an arms length away. Enjoy this intimate view of […]
