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Realistic utility poles with wires bring this model railroad town scene to life. Get detailed prototype information on utility poles in this previously published article by author Jeff Wilson. You’ll learn how to make your model railroad scenery more realistic by adding utility poles and wires. […]
LOS ANGELES — Nine years from now, Los Angeles will take the world stage as it hosts the 2028 Summer Olympics, with hundreds of thousands of visitors attending competitions spread out across the county from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach. LA Metro wants to be ready. Nadine Lee is the transportation agency’s chief […]
VSA Inc., the Lincoln, Neb.-based parent company of Heartland Hobby Wholesale, recently acquired Model Rectifier Corp. (MRC) of Edison, N.J. Model Rectifier Corp. will operate as a sister company of Heartland Hobby Wholesale. Akiko Kimura will be president of MRC and Donald Boyce will serve as executive vice president. Model Rectifier will continue to produce […]
Click on the links at left to download the image sized appropriately for your computer screen. Mat Thompson Oregon Coast RR no. 40 rounds the bend by the Columbia River on Mat Thompson’s HO scale model railroad. Mat’s photo is this month’s featured computer desktop wallpaper. Click on the links below to download the image […]
Name: Ray Wheeler Railroad Name: Jericho & Mt Zion Railway Location: Lynnwood, WA USA Scale: 1:20.3 Theme: Modern day steam powered tourist railroad with freight operations Description: A compilation from two days of plowing snow on the Jericho & Mt Zion Railway. Music by Hillsong Music from their album The Secret Place, “Dwelling Places.” […]
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Accurail HO scale assorted freight car kits HO scale freight cars Assorted freight car kits. Pacific Fruit Express (Western Pacific) 40-foot double-sheathed refrigerator car, $19.98. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Association of American Railroads 50-foot riveted-side boxcar, $18.98. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis 40-foot six-panel single-sheathed boxcar with wood ends, $18.98. Wabash 36-foot Fowler boxcar, $18.98. […]
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See sample consists of the Overland Route’s City of San Francisco from 1936, 1939, 1947, and 1955. Download the information by clicking here. […]
See color movies that Dave’s friend Dick Wallin took during their 1969 visit to Horseshoe Curve. […]
A track-level platform at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport station near Baltimore enables the use of the middle track, at bottom, for passenger boarding and detraining. Note the yellow step box behind the railing, for use with the lower platforms. Brian Schmidt Q I live near Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor and see short track-level platform extensions at […]
Central of Georgia’s 500-series Consolidations possessed good lines accented by interesting detail: visored headlight, capped stack, serif numerals, striped sandbox, generous cab. Classic Trains collection An alligator crosshead moving back and forth on its greased guides to the dictates of a hot piston rod; the hurried, hollow sighs up the stack as a pair of […]
