Price: $499.95 (no. 30-20174-1) Features: O-42 operation, one powered unit and three unpowered cars, interior decoration and illumination, powered unit has two can-style motors, ProtoSound 3.0 sound and control system, coil couplers on powered unit. One of the last, great memorials to the majesty of the Pennsylvania RR is the electrified railway line between New […]
Price: $69.95 (No. 2791992) Features: O gauge-compatible, wood construction, fully assembled and decorated, exterior lights. Order online now at www.menards.com, or visit your local Menards closer to Christmas. When Menards, a regional home improvement chain, stuck a corporate toe in the water of selling seasonal train sets, it was great. When they began selling custom-run […]
Price: $319.95 (no. 30-20190-1) Features: O-31 operation. Scale dimensions, two can-style motors, coil couplers, smoke unit, ProtoSound 3.0 command and sound system Current production run road names: Amtrak, Baltimore & Ohio, Chicago & North Western, and Ontario Southland Ry. At some point in the 1980s, it occurred to me that I wasn’t seeing as many […]
Read the entire story, only in the October 2014 issue! […]
Read the entire article on Steve Nelson’s layout, only in the October 2014 issue! […]
Name: Adam Matthews Railroad Name: Lake Laurel & Hardyville Location: Ohio Scale: O Theme: Freelanced hi-rail Description: This is my new Wheeling & Lake Erie SD45 with a coal train. I collect motive power from Ohio railroads of every era and the layout was designed to reflect any era. So by simply changing the motive […]
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The September 2014 issue’s Collectible Classic discusses this interesting boxcar. Joe Algozzini provides detailed information about the variations of this car. […]
SWOON FOR MAROON: Lehigh Valley F3s return to the MTH Premier line with the no. 20-20401 F3 A-B-A set. The O gauge outfit features can-style motors, coil couplers, directional lighting, a smoke unit, and ProtoSound 3.0. The set will operate on O-31 curves. The current MTH catalog also lists the nos. 20402-1 Great Northern, 20403-1 […]
Price: no. 1640 powered A unit (two road numbers) $499.95, unpowered B units (two road numbers) $219.95 Features: O-36 operation (A unit), O-45 operation (B unit); two can-style motors; Lionel TrainMaster and RailSounds; speed control; coil coupler; smoke unit Current-production road names: Burlington Route, Chicago & North Western, Great Northern, Jersey Central, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and Union […]
O gauge Premier line SD70ACe diesel by MTH Price: no. 20-20273 powered: $459.95, unpowered $269.95 Features: See review. O gauge RailKing line SD70ACe diesel by MTH Price: no. 30-20136-1 powered: $329.95 Features: See review. Current Premier and RailKing line Heritage road names (SD70ACe): Erie, Illinois Terminal, Jersey Central, Lackawanna, New York Central, Penn Central, Reading, […]
Name: Janis Roguskie Railroad Name: Reading Lines Location: Pennsylvania Scale: Lionel O Gauge Theme: Reading Railroad in Pennsylvania Description: Where there’s trains, there’ll be wrecks. I had a derailment while getting a tonnage train underway. Never one to waste an opportunity, I decided to exploit the play value of the derailment. All I need now […]
