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Model Railroader recently had a chance to look at hand-painted, pre-production samples of the HO scale WalthersMainline Budd 85-foot passenger cars, scheduled for release in January 2015. The newly tooled cars, which can operate on 18” radius curves, will feature truck-mounted couplers, 36” turned-metal wheelsets, sprung diaphragms, and Proto-Max knuckle couplers. The gap between the […]
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Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page To get the series started, show host Drew Halverson introduces you to layout owner Chuck Sable and his HO scale basement setup. Top-notch modelers David Popp and Cody Grivno waste no time jumping into rehab work, with the first targets being a simple […]
Headhouse and platforms Jacksonville Terminal Co. Jacksonville Terminal was a monument to Florida’s status as the southern vacation destination of choice for the eastern half of the U.S. Few travelers got off here; instead, the city was the funnel for trains arriving over the Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, and Southern Railway on their […]
HOLIDAY HIGHBALL: A popular point of view for folks interested in getting more youngsters in the hobby is “Offer train sets with trains that kids actually see.” Fair enough, so MTH is offering the no. 30-4230-1 RailKing Genesis train set. The ready-to-run O gauge outfit includes an Amtrak Genesis diesel, three Amfleet passenger cars, a […]
Price: $499.95 (no. 30-20174-1) Features: O-42 operation, one powered unit and three unpowered cars, interior decoration and illumination, powered unit has two can-style motors, ProtoSound 3.0 sound and control system, coil couplers on powered unit. One of the last, great memorials to the majesty of the Pennsylvania RR is the electrified railway line between New […]
CP’s St. Luc Yard roundhouse Walter R. Allen for CPR Canadian Pacific in July 1950 opened its sprawling new St. Luc Yard in the “wilds” above the cities of Lachine and Cote St. Luc, Quebec. Built to relieve congestion at CPR’s Hochelaga and Outremont Yards in Montreal, St. Luc included this 37-stall roundhouse, completed in […]
Norfolk Southern train 11V passes Highland Cut, Pa., on Jan. 18, 2014. Photo by Cynthia Luther […]
DL&W’s Hoboken Terminal Fred W. Schneider III Opened on February 25, 1907, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western’s Hoboken (N.J.) Terminal replaced an earlier facility on the site destroyed by fire in 1905. The new terminal featured 16 tracks and 6 ferry slips along the Hudson River across from New York City. Catenary came to the […]
CSX train Q389 crests “Hicksville Hill” near the Ohio-Indiana line on Track 2 as an empty BNSF-powered coal train waits for a crew on Track 1 in March 2014. The bridge has since been removed. Photo by Joe Kohnen […]
Broadway Limited Imports HO scale UP 4-8-2 steam locomotive A Union Pacific class MT-73 available in multiple versions joins Broadway Limited Imports’ HO scale steam roster. The detailed model, which features a dual-mode BLI Paragon2 sound decoder and a synchronized puffing smoke unit, operates smoothly on both Digital Command Control and direct-current (DC) layouts. The […]
Walthers HO scale Amfleet passenger cars Walthers, like prototype builder Budd Co. before it, has built on its Metroliner multiple-unit cars to bring newly tooled Amfleet equipment to HO. The cars are offered in both Amfleet I and II body styles. The Amfleet I models depict an 84-seat coach and an Amcafe. The Amfleet II […]
