Menards Plumbing Supply structure

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Price: $79.99 (no. 2791902) Features: Assembled wood structure, interior illumination (power supply not included), plumbing-related details on exterior Order online at www.menards.com or visit your local Menards store during the holiday season I was a bit surprised when I received my latest box from Menards – having seen the firm’s preassembled wood barn and a […]

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MTH O gauge E6 A-B-A diesel set

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Price: $729.95 (no. 20-20342-1) Features: O-42 operation, two can-style motors and smoke units in each A unit, coil couplers on A units, decorated cab interiors, MTH DCS sound and control system Current production road names: Baltimore & Ohio, Florida East Coast, Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific Getting from the Big Apple to Miami for fun, […]

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Canadian Pacific’s predecessors

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Some men go to war for their country. Others build railroads. In both ventures, there is sacrifice, struggle, and honor. The driving of the Canadian Pacific’s final spike at Craigellachie, B.C., in 1885 marked a defining moment in Canada’s transformation from a vast swath of land into a nation — a political and economic engine […]

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Feline King Kong destroys O-gauge Gotham City

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Name:    Frank Heynick Railroad Name:    Mini-Gotham Location:    Brooklyn, New York Scale:    O Theme:    Skyscraper City Description:    The video differs from anything else you’ve seen, since it is filmed in an O-scale metropolis with scratch-built skyscrapers rising to six feet in height and involves a story, an adventure of sorts. The first half of the video […]

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Walthers HO scale Russell snowplow

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Walthers HO scale snowplow A newly tooled Russell snowplow has been added to the WalthersProto line. But don’t confuse this model with its kit predecessor from 20 years ago. The ready-to-run 2014 version has prototype-specific details, metal wheelsets, a flanger with rivet detail, factory-installed wire grab irons, and underbody brake detail. In addition, the new […]

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Atlas HO scale Alco C-424 diesel locomotive

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Atlas Model RR Co. HO scale Alco C-424 diesel locomotive Although the HO scale Alco C-424 has been part of the Atlas product line for years, this latest Classic-series version marks the first time the firm’s HO model has been available with an ESU LokSound Select Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder that captures the raspy […]

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Athearn Trains HO scale EMD GP39X and GP49 diesel locomotives

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Athearn Trains HO scale GP39X diesel locomotive appropriately detailed for the Southern Ry. Athearn HO scale GP49 Athearn also makes a GP49 detailed specifically after its Norfolk Southern prototype. An Electro-Motive Division diesel unique to the Southern Ry. is being offered for the first time in plastic by Athearn Trains. The GP39X, upgraded to a […]

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Poof!

  CSX train Q257 with C40-8W No. 7893 rolls past the signal at MP 51 on the former Toledo & Ohio Central main line three miles north of Arlington, Ohio, on Jan. 19, 2014. Photo by Dale A. DeVene Jr. […]

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The merger puzzle

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A westbound trackage rights train is seen at Otis, Ind., in March 2014 with Canadian Pacific and CSX Transportation power. Bruce Stahl Procter & Gamble agrees to buy Gil­lette. Kmart takes over Sears. Federated Department Stores gobbles up rival May. Mergers filled the business news in 2004 and early 2005, and experts predict the trend […]

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