David Schoedel This is a great engine made by Model Power. It has an illuminated headlight and taillight, four-wheel electrical pickup and magnetic knuckle couplers. It can’t pull that many cars which is rather unfortunate. I got it to pull only three to four free-rolling freight cars on straight and level track. I would certainly […]
MILFORD, Ohio – Though subscribers report no new issues this year, the owner of locomotive news magazine Extra 2200 South said today the magazine is alive and well. With luck, Doug Cummings said, a new issue could be out in the next 30 days, but he said he wouldn’t promise that. The delay, Cummings said, […]
Three Union Pacific employees conduct a job briefing at Colton, Calif., wearing new high-visibility green vests. David Lustig OMAHA, Neb. – Most Union Pacific employees will switch from wearing orange to green safety vests. The railroad said it believes the green vests afford better visibility than traditional orange. Workers that maintain structures must continue to […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP38-2 diesel locomotive. BNSF Ry., CSX, Illinois Central, Iowa Interstate, Louisville & Nashville, and Penn Central. Two road numbers each. Factory-installed wire grab irons and McHenry scale magnetic knuckle couplers. $69.98. November 2009. Ready-to-Roll. Athearn Trains Bachmann HO scale Union Pacific Electro-Motive Division DD40ax Centennial diesel locomotive Union Pacific Electro-Motive […]
The National Model Railroad Association’s annual National Train Show was held in Hartford, Conn., from July 10-12. What follows is a list of new products announced by model railroad manufacturers exhibiting at the show. This list includes items not announced before the show; products revealed to Model Railroader before the show were listed in our […]
An operating transfer table is now part of the Cornerstone Series Built-Ups line from Walthers. The motorized plastic model also features operating lights. Common at railroad back shops, a transfer table makes it possible for equipment to be moved laterally, eliminating the need for turntables and complex switching moves. The Walthers transfer table has a […]
With a sharp looking model of the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee’s iconic Electroliner interurban, Con-Cor has captured the romance of what some call the golden age of the streamliner. The HO scale ready-to-run model is accurately detailed inside and out and can be easily converted to Digital Command Control (DCC). A desperate gamble. The […]
Available in accurate early or late versions, the HO scale Norfolk & Western class J from M.T.H. Electric Trains is a great-looking model of one of the most recognizable locomotives to run on North American rails. The model includes the M.T.H. Digital Control System (DCS) for realistic lights, sounds, and smoke on DC, DCS, or […]
Price: $1,169.99ManufacturerRoco-Fleischmann Modelleisenbahn groupSilvergate Distributors Inc.9755 Birch Canyon Place, Suite 200San Diego, CA 92126silvergatedistributors.comComments: The digitally controlled features on this HO scale German-prototype passenger set may make North American-prototype modelers a bit jealous. The locomotive and all three passenger cars feature realistic lights, sounds, and other user-controlled effects. Using a Model Rectifier Corp. Prodigy Advance […]
WHEN I WAS A LAD, GEEP 7s AND 9s WERE EVERYWHERE. There were so many that they blended in with the boxcars and hoppers, and often I didn’t bother to photograph a Geep passing by, but waited for either a cab unit or newer power. The truth is that while the Electro-Motive Division’s (EMD) cab-body […]
BEING A PROUD AMERICAN MODEL RAILROADER, I love our great heritage of O gauge 4-8-4 Northerns, and 4-8-2 Mountains, and the endless line of 4-6-4 Hudsons rolling along North American main lines. So let me note that it is really, really conflicting for me to say that the most intricately detailed die-cast metal locomotive that […]
THE POSTWAR-STYLE GG1 IS A FAVORITE IN SOME THREE-RAIL CIRCLES. Back in the day, it was an impressive model of the nation’s premier electric-profile locomotive. The fact that it had a die-cast metal shell and possessed 10 wheelsets to noisily clank and chunk through switches certainly appealed to everyone’s inner kid. This model gets my […]
