Bachmann HO scale brill trolley This brill trolley from Bachmann is a very good representation. It features a five-pull can motor and has all-wheel electrical pick up. The paint job is excellent and comes in red, green, or yellow. It has silhouetted people in the side windows, but the motor can be seen in the […]
Floquil Paint Markers Some time ago, associate editor Cody Grivno demonstrated painting rail with Floquil Pain Markers. I decided recently to give them a try. I found them on sale at Micro-Mark, so I bought the three-pack that included Rail Brown, Rail Road Tie Brown, and Rust. For my application, I used the Rust colored […]
RENO, Nev. — At 11:19 a.m. Pacific Time Friday, a tractor-trailer gravel truck traveling at a high rate of speed on U.S. 95 at Ocala, Nev., about 70 miles east of Reno, barreled into the side of the westbound California Zephyr. The truck struck the left-hand side of the Zephyr behind the two locomotives and […]
1:20.3 scale, gauge-1 combine AMS Trains33268 Central Ave.Union City CA 94587Check with your local dealer for price and availabilityWebsite: www.amstrains.com 1:20.3-scale combine (combination baggage car and coach); plastic body and interior detail; all-metal trucks; lighted interior; sliding side doors; opening, spring-loaded end doors; working knuckle couplers; basic underbody detail. Dimensions: length over end beams, 25½”; […]
Large scale, gauge-1 4-6-0 Bachmann Industries 1400 East Erie Avenue Philadelphia PA 19124 Price: $300 Website: www.bachmanntrains.com All-plastic representation of James from the Thomas-the-Tank series; moving eyes; blackened, metal, spoked wheels on locomotive and tender; plastic side rods; hook-and-loop couplers; unsprung buffers; molded-in handrails; polarity switch (NMRA/large scale) on engine. Dimensions: Length (locomotive and tender), […]
1:22.5/1:20.3-scale resin figures Hope Line FiguresDistributed by:SLMPO Box 28047Baltimore MD 21239Price: $11 unpainted; $14 primed, ready to paintWebsite: www.slmonline.com Cast-resin figures suitable for either 1:22.5 or 1:20.3 scale; sizes vary based on specific figure Pros: Excellent detail; natural poses Cons: None Supply Line Model Railroad Figures has added two new figures to their “Hope Line” […]
Miniature Garden Guidebook by Nancy Norris Published by Kalmbach Publishing Co. PO Box 1612 Waukesha WI 53187 112 pages, 8¼” x 10¾” Softbound, color photos throughout Price: $21.85 Website: www.kalmbachbooks.com Nancy Norris, Horticultural Editor for this magazine, has put together this handy guidebook that railroad gardeners, from novices to green-thumbers, will find useful. It is […]
36″ plate-girder bridge and 42″ Warren truss bridge Gnome Miniature Engineering1335 West River RoadCambridge, Ontario NIR 5S5CanadaPrices: Girder bridge, $321 + s&h; truss bridge, $338 + s&hWebsite: http://gnomengineers.blogspot.com Wood-and-aluminum bridges for garden-railway use. Plate-girder bridge (#PL36) dimensions: length, 36″; width, 4” (bridge), 6.625″ (timber bridge deck); height, 3.575″. Warren truss-bridge (#TR42) dimensions: length, 42″; width, […]
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Athearn N scale Bombardier bi-level cars Price: Coach or cab car, $28.98; three-coach set, $84.98 ManufacturerAthearn Trains1600 Forbes Way, Suite 120Long Beach, CA 90810www.athearn.com Era: 1976 to present Road names: Northstar Commuter, Metrolink, New Mexico DOT (RailRunner), North County Transit District (Coaster), Trinity Rail Express, Utah Front RunnerN scale modelers have more options to model […]
Bachmann Trains HO scale Electro-Motive GP9 diesel locomotive A smooth dual-flywheel mechanism and a dual-mode Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder highlight this new HO scale GP9 diesel from Bachmann. The four-axle locomotive model performed well during direct-current (DC) and DCC tests, and pulled a respectable number of freight cars on our Milwaukee, Racine & Troy […]
ExactRail LLC HO scale 64-foot refrigerator car A contemporary 64-foot mechanical refrigerator car is now available as a well-detailed injection-molded plastic model. This latest HO scale freight car from ExactRail is based on a prototype built by TrinityRail. The full-size “TRINCool” reefers are commonly seen in 55-car unit trains on Union Pacific (UP) and CSX. […]
