Video: TCS WOWSound steam DCC decoder

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The Train Control Systems WOWSound Digital Command Control decoder includes many realistic sound effects. Check out this demonstration of a WOWSound decoder that’s been installed in a Broadway Limited Imports Santa Fe 2-10-2. The decoder includes adjustable sound effects and the Audio Assist programming feature. […]

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Burnt River

A westbound Union Pacific freight crosses the Burnt River near Weatherby, Ore., in June 2010. The train is headed for Baker City. Photo by Kevin Dellinger […]

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MR Insider Weekly: September 8, 2014

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Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page A brand-new series, Rehab My Railroad, is set to debut this week on MR Video Plus! In this week’s MR Insider, David Popp talks with layout owner Chuck Sable and show host Drew Halverson about some of the projects the how-to series will […]

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Borrowed

Canadian Pacific train No. 810, with some borrowed power, makes its run for Wisconsin as the sun settles behind the bluffs along the Mississippi River in southeast Minnesota on Jan. 5, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]

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Close-up

Eastbound CSX train Q382 arrives in Fostoria, Ohio, under the West Tiffin Street overpass on May 6, 2014. The bridge fence is equipped with camera holes for railfans visiting the well-known hot spot. Photo by Dale A. DeVene Jr. […]

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Bachmann HO scale Bethlehem Steel 100-ton 3-Bay hopper

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Bachmann HO scale Bethlehem Steel 100-ton 3-bay hopper The HO scale Bethlehem Steel 100-ton-3-Bay Hopper is a release from the “Bachman Silver Series” rolling stock line. The car I am reviewing is decorated for the regional railroad of “Wheeling And Lake Erie Railway.” The paint is crisp and the colors match the rail colors exactly, […]

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Indiana Northeastern locomotive roster

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Indiana Northeastern GP30s Nos. 2185 and 2230 approach the Fox Lake Road overpass at Angola, Ind. Steve Smedley Veteran photojournalist Steve Smedley documents the history and operations of shortline Indiana Northeastern, and pays tribute to the line’s hand-me-down GP30s and hard-working railroaders in “Second-generation Sojourn” in Locomotive 2014. Explore the line’s entire all-EMD roster here […]

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A hard way to make a living

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Illinois Central 2-8-2 Mikado 1544 is eastbound at Villa Park, Ill., on a cold day in 1951. Henry M. Stange Some years ago, after a reunion of my old 10th Engineer Battalion at Springfield, Ill., I boarded Amtrak’s Statehouse for Chicago. I’d never ridden the former Chicago & Alton before, but I was eager to […]

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