Good looking scenery includes a variety of layered textures and colors. We’ll take a look at how to build some of those first scenic layers on our HO scale project railroad, including this hillside. Bill Zuback photo You may be surprised to find that the biggest part of building our HO Black River Junction project […]
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This is a 4K test video of my City Edge layout. My brother Rex was in town last summer and shot this street level video with his GoPro mini camera. The video might be jumpy because YouTube still has trouble rendering this super high def video, but the image can still be stunning! […]
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This is a 4K test video of my City Edge layout. My brother Rex was in town last summer and shot this street level video with his GoPro mini camera. The video might be jumpy because YouTube still has trouble rendering this super high def video, but the image can still be stunning! […]
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At Flagstaff, Ariz., where Santa Fe operator Elisa Lindenberg apprenticed in 1943, an operator hands up orders to an FT-powered eastbound perishables train in 1947. Joe Lynch The time was August 1943, the place, Flagstaff, Arizona. My mother, Elisa Ward Lindenberg, and I had come west because Zane Gray’s books had captivated her and she […]
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Model Railroader senior editor Dana Kawala installed a Train Control Systems WOWDiesel Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder and TCS WOWSound speaker into a Kato HO scale F40PH. Check out some of the features of this new DCC sound decoder. […]
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Model Railroader senior editor Dana Kawala installed a Train Control Systems WOWDiesel Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder and TCS WOWSound speaker into a Kato HO scale F40PH. Check out some of the features of this new DCC sound decoder. […]
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This is the new part of my On30 Turtle Creek Central model railroad. […]
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This is the new part of my On30 Turtle Creek Central model railroad. […]
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Vic Worthington built an impressive HO scale model of the Clay Spur bentonite plant that’s featured in the July 2015 Model Railroader. Bentonite is an absorbent clay that’s used in many industrial and consumer products and is often transported by rail. […]
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Click on the links to download the desktop wallpaper in your preferred screen size. The July issue of Model Railroader magazine features this standout trackside photo of Kenny Ravenscroft’s HO scale Pilar Valley Ry. This month you can download this image to use as a background on your computer screen. Click on your preferred image […]
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