Watch switching operations and see updates on the O scale Rayantown layout. Video by Paul Dell Ava. […]
Rayantown switching action
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A Marx Santa Fe passenger train makes the rounds
Name: Todd Hein Railroad Name: Santa Fe Location: Twin City Model Railroad Museum Scale: O gauge Description: A Marx Santa Fe passenger train running on one of the layouts at the Twin City Model Railroad Museum. […]
Trains Tube: In a Swiss Tunnel 2018
Join Trains on a visit to a track work project in a Swiss tunnel. Rhomberg Sersa and the Rhaetian Railway invited Trains to see how they re-build meter-gauge track in often grueling conditions in September 2018. See Steve Sweeney’s full story in the March 2019 issue of Trains, THE magazine of railroading! […]
How-to Library: Airbrushing with Aaron, Episode 12, Water Effects
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this episode of AWA, host Aaron Skinner is making BIG waves! Follow along to learn an easy technique for making a realistic seascape atop a foam insulation base. […]
Winter running on the CPR Joy Division
Name: Kent Johnson Railroad Name: Canadian Pacific Joy Division Location: Milwaukee, Wisc. Scale: 1:29 Theme: Modern-era branch line in Western Canada Description: The sun was making a weak effort to shine over the CPR Joy Division garden railroad on a cold January afternoon. Even so, I still wanted to capture the inaugural run of my […]
Rock Island Passenger Train No. 18, “The Plainsman”
Rock Island passenger Train No. 18, “The Plainsman”, passes through Trenton, MO., Des Moines, Nevada, Clear Lake Jct., IA., and Albert Lea, MN., on its journey from Kansas City to St. Paul / Minneapolis. This train is operating on my Rock Island-based HO scale model railroad. Video by Michael Armstrong. […]
Trains Presents: Southern Railway steam doubleheader
Ride with us on the tender tank of Southern Railway 2-8-0 No. 630 while we watch Southern 2-8-2 No. 4501 at work on a Chattanooga, Tenn.-Summerville, Ga., trip in October 2018. You’ll see and hear the engines at work on famous Missionary Ridge. It’s a classic Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum excursion with lots of stack […]
Trains Presents: Cumbres & Toltec Scenic double-headed steam
Join us for a ride on the tender of a narrow-gauge Mikado in the San Juan Mountains of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. We’ll ride the tender tank from Chama, N.M., up the 4 percent grade of Cumbres Pass. Only from Trains! […]
Video Inside the March 2019 Model Railroader
The March issue of Model Railroader magazine is now on sale! Inside you’ll find two layouts, one large and the other compact, that model the railroad scene in the 1960s. How-to stories include modeling mountain scenery, detailing and painting an M.O.W. car, and much more! Follow editor Hal Miller as he shares the […]
Off The Rails: Episode 34
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page OTR from Iceland!?! Not so fast! However, the beauty shop items that show host Gerry Leone features in this episode are just as foreign to many modelers as railroads are to the rugged Nordic island. […]
How-to Library: Designing a layout, Part 7
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this episode, David pulls in even more reference materials to aid the accuracy of his initial track plan for a C&NW HO scale layout. It’s also time for a quick reality check, especially when it concerns the pragmatic parts of the design […]
Modeler’s Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office for January 2019
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Start off the new year with new locomotives, freight cars, and more in Cody’s Office. Group Technical editor Cody Grivno will also show you how to tune up all that new rolling stock you got during the holidays, including using a National Model […]
