A Mikado out West, a Reading diesel in Pennsylvania, and a UP freight on the Plains

An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotive pulls a short freight through a Southwestern desert landscape

September 2022 Trackside Photos   Send us your photos Trackside Photos is a showcase for the work of Model Railroader readers. Send your photos (digital images 5 megapixels or larger) to: Model Railroader, Trackside Photos, P.O. Box 1612, Waukesha, WI 53187-1612; or upload them to fileupload.kalmbach.com/contribute. For our photo submission guidelines, contact senior associate editor […]

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MR&T heritage fleet diesel locomotive roster in HO scale

Photo of seven HO scale diesel locomotives on scenicked model railroad

MR&T heritage fleet diesel locomotive roster MR&T heritage fleet diesel locomotives: The Milwaukee, Racine & Troy, Model Railroader’s staff layout, has been around for more than 45 years. Similar to many full-size railroads, the freelanced MR&T has changed paint schemes on its diesel locomotives over the years. Following the lead of two Class 1 railroads, […]

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MR&T Jenks Blue HO scale diesel fleet

MR&T Jenks Blue locomotives: Photo of six HO scale diesel locomotives on white background

MR&T Jenks Blue diesel locomotives: The Milwaukee, Racine & Troy, Model Railroader’s staff layout, has been around for more than 45 years. Similar to many full-size railroads, the freelanced MR&T changed paint schemes on its diesel locomotives over the years. The railroad’s third – and current – paint scheme is Jenks Blue, which was introduced […]

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MRT blue-and-white diesel locomotives in HO scale

MR&T blue-and-white diesel locomotives: Photo of three locomotives on white background.

MRT blue-and-white diesel locomotives: The Milwaukee, Racine & Troy, Model Railroader’s staff layout, has been around for more than 45 years. Similar to many full-size railroads, the freelanced MR&T has changed paint schemes on its diesel locomotives over the years. The railroad’s second paint scheme was Amtrak Blue and Reefer White, used from 1989 to […]

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MR&T blue diesel locomotives roster in HO scale

MR&T blue diesel locomotives: Photo of five HO scale diesel locomotives on white background

MR&T blue diesel locomotives MR&T blue diesel locomotives: The Milwaukee, Racine & Troy, Model Railroader’s HO scale staff layout, has been around for more than 45 years. Similar to many full-size railroads, the freelanced MR&T changed paint schemes on its diesel locomotives over the years. The railroad’s first paint scheme, Amtrak Blue, was used from […]

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Switching scrap metal, stopping for coal, heading into a tunnel, and more Trackside Photos

A steam engine switches a gondola of baled scrap metal next to an old-fashioned downtown scene

Send us your Trackside Photos Trackside Photos is a showcase for the work of Model Railroader readers. Send your photos (digital images 5 megapixels or larger) to: Model Railroader, Trackside Photos, P.O. Box 1612, Waukesha, WI 53187-1612; or upload them to fileupload.kalmbach.com/contribute. For our photo submission guidelines, contact senior associate editor Steven Otte at sotte@kalmbach.com. […]

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Trackside Photos: A B&O local, a VE produce train, a C&O coal train, and more

A rusty green diesel is seen in low angle pulling a graffiti-covered reefer car past fruit groves

Send us your photos Trackside Photos is a showcase for the work of Model Railroader readers. Send your photos (digital images 5 megapixels or larger) to: Model Railroader, Trackside Photos, P.O. Box 1612, Waukesha, WI 53187-1612; or upload them to http://fileupload.kalmbach.com/contribute. For our photo submission guidelines, contact Senior Associate Editor Steven Otte at sotte@kalmbach.com. […]

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Trackside Photos: A Great Northern steamer, an Iowa Interstate grade crossing, a Zephyr on a bridge, and more

A Great Northern 2-6-6-2 steam locomotive crosses a steel deck truss bridge over a creek in wooded mountains.

Send us your photos Trackside Photos is a showcase for the work of Model Railroader readers. Send your photos (digital images 5 megapixels or larger) to: Model Railroader, Trackside Photos, P.O. Box 1612, Waukesha, WI 53187-1612; or upload them to http://fileupload.kalmbach.com/contribute. For our photo submission guidelines, contact senior associate editor Steven Otte at sotte@kalmbach.com. […]

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Milwaukee museum debuts HO scale layout

A photo of the Milwaukee Everett Street train station in HO scale.

Milwaukee museum debuts HO scale layout: “All Aboard” is the name of a 10 x 35-foot HO scale model railroad at Discovery World, a family-oriented science and technology museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Set in the steam-to-diesel transition era, the proto-freelanced layout opened Nov. 25, 2021. The exhibit supports Discovery World’s mission of Science, Technology, Engineering, […]

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