Bachmann HO scale EMD DDA40X diesel locomotive Now available with a dual-mode Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder, Bachmann’s HO scale model of the 98-foot-long DDA40X has dual motors that make it a powerful puller. This is appropriate, since the prototype’s dual 3,300-hp diesel engines made it the most powerful diesel-electric locomotive ever built. 100 years […]
Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Paragon2 SW7 diesel locomotive From the bleating of a single-chime air horn to the low rumble of a 567A diesel engine, this HO scale SW7 captures the distinctive sounds of the hardworking prototype. The Broadway Limited Imports model uses the same tooling as the BLI SW7 and NW2 made in […]
Rapido Trains Inc. HO scale steam generator car Featuring wisps of simulated steam escaping from under the carbody, this new HO steam generator car from Rapido Trains accurately models a prototype that kept passengers warm on Canadian railroads. Prior to the diesel era, passenger trains were heated by piping in steam from a locomotive’s boiler. […]
Tam Valley Depot Digital Command Control (DCC) Hex Frog Juicer The Hex Frog Juicer from Tam Valley Depot is an automatic reversing circuit for turnout and crossing frogs on Digital Command Control layouts. Each unit can power and reverse polarity for up to six frogs, enough for as many turnouts or three crossings. The Hex […]
SPROG 2 – JMRI Digital Command Control Programmer What’s better than Digital Command Control (DCC)? Being able to program it easily. I’ve recently ditched programming my DCC stuff via the controller on the command station and now use a SPROG 2 connected via USB directly to my computer (in my case a Mac, however Windows […]
RAILROADING IS RELATIVELY UNAFFECTED by most weather systems, but snow can can be another story. Over time railroads have adapted technology to do battle with the white stuff. […]
THIS MODEL IS THE THIRD OUTING for the UK-outline tooling created for the movie-related Hogwarts Express from the Harry Potter book and movie series. The second product was the Shakespeare Express (based on a British excursion train of the same name). […]
NEW YORK — Amtrak will replace modified café cars on its Chicago-New York/Boston Lake Shore Limited with “Heritage” dining cars, beginning with westbound train No. 49 today, Dec. 14. The cars, operating to and from New York, feature booth-style seating, large picture windows, and modern cooking equipment, and an expanded menu will result. “Putting dining […]
AS IMPERVIOUS AS RAILROADING CAN SEEM TO MOST CHANGES IN THE WEATHER, snow can really throw a wrench in the works. Over time railroads have adapted technology to do battle with the white stuff. This has included traditional plows that ram their way through heavy drifts and rotary plows that use moving blades to toss […]
NO, YOUR EYES DON’T DECEIVE YOU. The issue in your hands does carry a February date, and the subject of our attention is a Christmas locomotive. But how can that be? Well, I’m actually writing this before Halloween, so the holiday train spirit hasn’t yet arrived at the CTT station. I visited Sommerfeld’s Trains in […]
IN KEEPING WITH OUR LEAD REVIEW, THE SANTA’S FLYER locomotive, we wanted to include a suggestion for a follow-on transformer, a step beyond the rig that comes with a starter set. The latest transformer from the Model Rectifier Corp. fills the bill between a basic starter set rig and a high-priced, high-horsepower model. Model Rectifier […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division F7 A-A and A-B diesel locomotive sets. Atlantic Coast Line, Kansas City Southern, Minneapolis & St. Louis (A-A set), New York Central, and Southern Pacific (Daylight paint scheme). Powered lead unit with dummy trailer; all are A-B sets unless noted. Metal wheelsets and McHenry scale magnetic knuckle couplers. $89.98. March […]
