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Vital statistics 7⁄8″ scale, gauge 1, live-steam 0-4-2T locomotive Accucraft Trains 33268 Central Avenue Union City CA 94587 Price: $2,200 Website: www.accucraft.com Gauge 1, 7⁄8″ scale (1:13.7) model of a Baldwin 0-4-2T locomotive; live-steam operation; all-metal construction; butane fired; single-flue copper boiler; fittings include safety valve, check valve, water glass, pressure gauge, filler plug; working […]
NEWTON, N.J. – Carstens Publications Inc. is closing at the end of business on Aug. 22. “It is with regret that Carstens Publicatons Inc. will be closing permanently at close of business on Friday, August 22, 2014. Carstens Publications Inc. has been a leading publisher of leading hobby magazines for over 50 years. Unfortunately the […]
Norfolk, Va. – Norfolk Southern has released the latest in a series of popular television commercials aimed at business decision makers and the general public. The new 30-second commercial, entitled “Just Another Day,” highlights how NS moves a “nearly inconceivable” amount of freight every day, but to their folks it’s “just another day.” The railroad […]
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 […]
Athearn HO scale GP40-2L diesel locomotive For the first time in plastic, a Canadian National GP40-2L is available in HO scale. Athearn Trains’ Genesis series brings out-of-the-box superdetailing to a new level, and this Canadian-built variation of an Electro-Motive Division GP40-2 is no exception. The Digital Command Control version includes a dual-mode SoundTraxx DCC sound […]
Train Control Systems WOWSound DCC decoder After years of making Digital Command Control motor decoders, Train Control Systems enters the world of DCC sound in a big way with its WOWSound line of decoders. TCS uses microSD card technology to give the WOWSound decoders enough storage space for full-CD quality audio files. I tested the […]
ExactRail HO scale HO scale Norfolk Southern Protector coil steel car Price: $46.95 Manufacturer ExactRail 251 W. River Park Drive, Suite 300 Provo, Utah 84604 www.ExactRail.com Era: 1992 to present Comments: This HO scale, ready-to-run model represents one of the 60 heavy-duty specialized coil steel cars built by Thrall Car Co. for the Norfolk Southern […]
Atlas N scale American Car Foundry 5701 cubic foo capacity four bay covered hopper Price: $24.95 Manufacturer Atlas Model Railroad Co. 378 Florence Ave. Hillside, NJ 07205 www.atlasrr.com Era: 1972 to present Road names: Grain – Archer Daniels Midland and Chicago Freight Car Leasing. Plastics – Amoco, Dow Chemical, Goodrich, and Louisiana-Pacific. Three numbers per […]
Bachmann N scale NW2 diesel locomotive If a smooth-running, Digital Command Control-equipped N scale switcher is on your shopping list, you might want to take a look at the new Bachmann NW2. This locomotive combines an accurately modeled shell with precise performance. The prototype. Railroads across the country rostered NW2s, from a single unit by […]
Flagg Coal No. 75, owned by the Gramlings. Ralcon Wagner FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Producers of the television show “Have Steam Engine, Will Travel,” which chronicles the exploits of Indiana’s Gramling Locomotive Works and its traveling steam locomotives, are seeking funding for a second season through the Internet. Up in the Air Productions has turned […]
The view from inside the Cheyenne steam shop that has not been seen in two decades. Union Pacific CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Three months after completing the monumental task of moving 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4014 to its new home in Wyoming, the Union Pacific steam crew is spending the summer of 2014 preparing never-retired 4-8-4 […]
