Senior editor Dana Kawala installed a SoundTraxx Micro Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder into a Kato N scale Union Pacific FEF-3 steam locomotive. See and hear the N scale 4-8-4 haul the new Kato Union Pacific excursion train around the Model Railroader staff’s Salt Lake Route layout. […]
Name: Adam Matthews Railroad Name: The New Layout at Stockyard Express Location: Oberlin, Ohio Scale: O Theme: Freelanced hi-rail Description: Take a ride around the New Layout at Stockyard Express LLC. The layout features FasTrack but all the trains are from MTH. […]
Senior editor Dana Kawala installed a SoundTraxx Micro Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder into a Kato N scale Union Pacific FEF-3 steam locomotive. See and hear the N scale 4-8-4 haul the new Kato Union Pacific excursion train around the Model Railroader staff’s Salt Lake Route layout. […]
Lakeview – A small HO town on a C&NW model railroad from GBA Productions on Vimeo. A tour of a small town on my model railroad featuring Light Works USA neon animated signs, including Diner, Theater, Drugstore, Jesus Saves, OK Used Cars, Cafe, and Shamrock Hotel. […]
Lakeview – A small HO town on a C&NW model railroad from GBA Productions on Vimeo. A tour of a small town on my model railroad featuring Light Works USA neon animated signs, including Diner, Theater, Drugstore, Jesus Saves, OK Used Cars, Cafe, and Shamrock Hotel. […]
A BNSF ES44C4’s radiator assembly in the plant at Fort Worth, Texas. Both GE and EMD radiator sections are prebuilt and set onto the frame during assembly. Chris Guss Locomotive engine heat, left uncontrolled, can damage engine parts and shorten the life of the engine and its attached components. An effective radiator system keeps the […]
New Haven FL9 2019, owned by Railroad Museum of New England, during North Carolina Transportation Museum’s Streamliners at Spencer event in June 2014. Robert S. McGonigal View a list of the 22 survivors of the New Haven’s original fleet of 60 FL9 locomotives […]
Soo Line FP7 2500, owned by Lake Superior Railroad Museum, and Southern Railway FP7 6133, owned by North Carolina Transportation Museum, during NCTM’s Streamliners at Spencer event in June 2014. Robert S. McGonigal VIEW FP7 Survivors List […]
One of the few big steam locomotives that railfans can see in action, Union Pacific no. 844, joins Kato USA’s N scale roster. The dimensionally accurate plastic model features a coreless-motor drive that can be converted to Digital Command Control. The prototype. Union Pacific no. 844 is the last steam locomotive delivered to the UP. […]
Rapido HO scale GMD-1 diesel locomotive Some might think of it as an ugly-duckling; others might find its looks endearing. But wherever you stand on its appearance, the GMD-1 is an unusual locomotive. Modelers of Canadian prototypes have Rapido to thank for bringing these prairie “ponies,” as some of their crews called them, to HO […]
Kato N scale Union Pacific excursion train Complementing the Kato FEF-3, this N scale passenger set models some of the crown jewels of Union Pacific’s current excursion and business train fleet. The models are decorated to reflect the prototype’s present-day appearance. The set includes power car no. 207, crew sleeper no. 202 Willie James, museum […]
Walthers HO scale Santa Fe 24-duplex-roomette sleeper Price: $79.98 Manufacturer Wm. K. Walthers Inc. P.O. Box 3039 Milwaukee, WI 53201 www.walthers.com Era: 1954 to 1963 Road name: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Comments: This lightweight sleeping car is the most recent addition to Walthers’ HO scale Santa Fe San Francisco Chief. The model represents […]
