The Portage Railway: An Illustrated History of the Huntsville & Lake of Bays Railway by Jeff Young and Peter Foley Available from: Credit Valley Railway Company 2900 Argentia Road, Unit 24 Mississauga ON L5N 7X9 Canada www.cvrco.ca 12 1/4″ x 9 1/4″; 204 pages, including 10 9″ x 18 1/2″ foldout drawings; hardbound The Huntsville […]
Kadee Quality Products Co. HO scale assorted freight cars HO scale freight cars Assorted freight cars. Southern Pacific Pullman-Standard PS-2 two-bay covered hopper with notched roof hatch covers (two road numbers), $43.95. 2018 Kadee Christmas 40-foot Pullman-Standard PS-1 boxcar with 6-foot, five-panel Superior door, $42.95. All models feature scale couplers and two-piece self-centering trucks. Kadee […]
Click on the links at left to download the image sized appropriately for your computer screen. A General Electric ES44AC leads an eastbound coal train in Furnace Creek Canyon on Eric Brooman’s HO scale Utah Belt. Modern motive power is one of the many recent developments of the ever-evolving UB. This month you can use […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Cody continues adding realistic weathering effects to a modern N scale locomotive – all without using an airbrush! Follow along as he shares tips and techniques for working with powders (see the December 2017 issue of Model Railroader magazine) to weather the unit from […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Cody continues adding realistic weathering effects to a modern N scale locomotive – all without using an airbrush! Follow along as he shares tips and techniques for working with powders (see the December 2017 issue of Model Railroader magazine) to weather the unit from […]
UNUSUAL LIVERY: MTH’s steel refrigerator car line has added a unique road name: the no. 20-94276 Magcobar Foundry Products. Magcobar used a fleet of 10 insulated cars leased from GE Rail Services (reporting mark NIRX) to ship dry drilling mud to oilfield support sites. In addition to Magcobar, road names include Baltimore & Ohio, Canadian […]
Dave Rickaby shot this cab ride video on Gregg Condon’s HOn3 Rio Grande Southern Lizard Head Division layout, which is featured in the 2019 issue of Great Model Railroads. Hop on board and enjoy the ride from Rico to Lizard Head. […]
Dave Rickaby shot this cab ride video on Gregg Condon’s HOn3 Rio Grande Southern Lizard Head Division layout, which is featured in the 2019 issue of Great Model Railroads. Hop on board and enjoy the ride from Rico to Lizard Head. […]
This cab ride video was shot on Gregg Condon’s HOn3 Rio Grande Southern Lizard Head layout, which is featured in Great Model Railroads 2019. Hop on board as we travel from the snowsheds at Lizard Head down to Rico. Video by Dave Rickaby. […]
Setting up the DR5000 is easy but requires a Microsoft Windows PC. Shown here are the adjustable power supply and the DR5000 command station. Laptop not included. The DR5000 works with a variety of wireless and wired throttles that use Loconet and XpressNet interfaces. The device also supports several smartphone apps. One of the challenges […]
Con-Cor HO scale MP54 coach and trailer Con-Cor’s Pennsylvania RR MP54 has a wide-open passenger compartment, facilitated by its ceiling-mounted printed-circuit board and subfloor drivetrain. Here comes the happy couple! Con-Cor has added to its line of Pennsylvania RR MP54 commuter cars with models of the semi-permanently coupled married pairs, or bride-and-grooms. We published tests […]
ScaleTrains.com N scale 5750 carbon black covered hopper Price: $31.99 Manufacturer ScaleTrains.com Inc. 7598 Highway 411 Benton, TN 37307 www.scaletrains.com Era: September 1977 to present Road names: Columbian Chemicals, Cabot, Sid Richardson Carbon Co., and Witco. Four road numbers per scheme. Comments: A Thrall Manufacturing Co. 5,750-cubic-foot-capacity three-bay carbon black covered hopper is now offered […]
