Name: The Salt Lake Route Scale: N (1:160) Size: 4 x 9 feet Prototype: Union Pacific Locale: Meadow Valley Wash in southern Nevada Era: present day Style: island Mainline run: 15 feet Minimum radius: 10″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: level Originally appeared in the January 2010 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In the September issue expert modeler Pelle Soeborg gives you tips for making your layout look realistic in photographs. Subscribers can check out this video of trains running on Pelle’s modern-era Union Pacific layout. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In the September issue expert modeler Pelle Soeborg gives you tips for making your layout look realistic in photographs. Subscribers can check out this video of trains running on Pelle’s modern-era Union Pacific layout. […]
Q In March Trains, an article on the demise of semaphore signals on the former Monon [Page 14] mentioned that CSX was doing away with lineside pole lines and their maintenance. It said the new system will use Electro Code, a system where signal communications run through the rails. How is this done?– Richard K. […]
Name: Montana Rail Link Scale: N (1:160) Size: 13′-0″ x 18′-9″ Prototype: Montana Rail Link Locale: Montana Era: current Style: walk-in Mainline run: 144 feet Minimum radius: 16½” Minimum turnouts: Peco long-(main) and medium-radius (yards) Maximum grade: 2 percent Originally appeared in the May 2009 issue of Model Railroader. See a PDF version of this […]
Name: Puffer Bridge Lines Scale: HO scale (1:87.1) Size: 14 x 25 feet Prototype: freelanced Locale: freelanced United States Era: contemporary Style: walk around Mainline run: 85 feet Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main), no. 4 (yards) Maximum grade: none Originally appeared in the February 2009 issue of Model Railroader. See a PDF […]
Q On many Union Pacific refrigerated boxcars, the reporting mark “ARMN” appears below the UP shield. What railroad is that?– Kevin Margan, Madison, Wis. A Normally any reporting mark not ending is “X” indeed stands for a railroad company (“X” signifying privately owned cars), and UP, like several Class Is, still uses initials of railroads […]
Name: Union Pacific Rochelle Subdivision Scale: N (1:160) Size: 14 x 28 feet Prototype: Union Pacific Locale: Northern Illinois Era: present day Style: walkaround Mainline run: 165 feet Minimum radius: 20″ (main), 13″ (staging) Minimum turnout: handlaid, no. 6 Maximum grade: 1.1 percent Originally appeared in the November 2008 issue of Model Railroader. See a […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Smoky Valley RR Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 9 x 11 Prototype: ET&WNC, L&N, Southern, and others Era: 1950s to present Mainline run: 40 feet Minimum radius: 20″ Minimum turnouts: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2.2 percent Originally appeared in the February 2008 issue of Model Railroader. Also appeared in 102 […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Wisconsin & Southern Troy Branch Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 22 x 33 feet, including 16′-0″ staging yard Prototype: Wisconsin & Southern Era: present day Style: shelf Mainline run: 36 feet Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 5 Maximum grade: none Originally appeared in the January 2008 issue of Model […]
Track plan at a glance Name: SBB Gotthard Line Scale: Z (1:220) Size: 30 x 50 feet Prototype: Swiss Federal Rys. Era: contemporary Style: island Mainline run: 310 feet Minimum radius: 10″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2.5 percent Originally appeared in the December 2007 issue of Model Railroader. See a PDF version of […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Wildcat Central Scale: HO (1:87) Originally appeared in the January 2001 issue of Model Railroader. Click here to download a PDF of this track plan […]
