This video highlights how Thomas Klimoski modeled an operating overhead rolling door on his Georgia Northeastern model railroad. See the May 2018 issue of Model Railroader for more information. […]
How to model an operating overhead rolling door
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Discovering the Transcontinental Railroad’s completion site at Promontory, Utah
Lonely. Isolated. Desolate. Remote. The list of words to describe how this place — one of the (if not the) most sacred sites in American railroad history — feels is nowhere long enough. To come here into the high desert is to be on a pilgrimage for a glimpse into the unending sagebrush, rocks, and […]
If a Transcontinental Railroad were Built Today
Construction crews working westward on the Union Pacific encountered rough going when they reached Utah’s Weber Canyon. Trains collection If you built a transcontinental railroad today from scratch, how long would it take, given the regulatory environment of the modern world? Nobody knows for sure, but the best guess is about 57 years. Here’s a […]
Year-by-year, a timeline of completing the Transcontinental Railroad
Union Pacific trains and ocvered wagons congregate near the end of track at Archer, Wyo., in 1867 during construction westward. Union Pacific 1832: Proponents call for transcontinental railroad 1845: New England merchant and traveler, Asa Whitney begins advocacy for Pacific Railroad 1853: Congress appropriates $150,000 for survey of five routes 1855-1860: 12 volumes of findings […]
‘California Zephyr,’ Missouri trains disrupted by floods
CHICAGO—Flooding in eastern Nebraska, western Iowa, and northwest Missouri has caused delays, truncations and outright cancellations to the Chicago-Emeryville, Calif., California Zephyr and two state-sponsored Missouri River Runner round-trips between St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo. Today’s eastbound Zephyr is cancelled entirely out of California; Amtrak has blocked sales east of Denver until at least […]
What’s in a photograph?: Norfolk & Western at Blue Ridge, Va.
1 Split-point derail device. Considered more effective than a lifting-block derail when there is extra risk of cars rolling out onto the main line from a “house track” or “back track” (terms for station trackage other than a passing siding), or from an industry track, especially when there is a descending grade toward the switch, […]
New model trains for the week of March 21, 2019
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division F59PHI diesel locomotive. Amtrak (“Stay off the tracks. I pack a punch.” slogan [one road number], “Stay off! Stay Away! Stay Alive!” slogan [one number], blue-and-silver scheme, and Cascades scheme), Metra (Cascades patchout in one number and blue-and-silver patchout), Metropolitan Transport Agency (Montreal), Utah Front Runner, and fantasy paint schemes […]
New products from the May 2019 issue of Classic Toy Trains magazine
RUN FOR THE BORDER: The fully assembled and illuminated no. 279-4451 Taco Bell Restaurant brings a popular fast food chain to O gauge layouts. Mounted on a 101/2 x 111/4-inch landscaped base, the building features back-lit sign, illuminated interior, outdoor dining area with four figures, Jack the German shepherd figure, and two die-cast metal vehicles […]
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Turning Big Boys in 2 x 5 feet
Flemming Ørneholm’s HO scale Eaglecreek & Northern, which was featured in the February 2012 Model Railroader, is a testament to his ingenious use of space. In less than 7 x 12 feet, Flemming’s HO scale layout captures the sprawling vistas of the west along the Union Pacific. With massive UP 4-8-8-4 Big Boys regularly hauling […]
Switch heaters
A northbound BNSF coal train passes Coal Creek Junction, Wyo., in July 2008. Steve Glischinski Q The picture on page 42 of the March 2016 issue shows some interesting trackside equipment. It looks like they could be switch heater propane tanks, however, I don’t see any switches. – Bruce Bussert, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. A The […]
Oregon Joint Line updated layout tour
Check out the progress that’s been made on Dean Ferris’ N scale Oregon Joint Line layout. […]
