Rich’s layout, sprawling over four levels of rugged mountain scenery, revitalized his family’s love affair with toy trains. Watch the video below to tour the Black Diamond Ry. […]
Rich Battista’s Black Diamond Ry.
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More than a touch of class
The Santa Fe was a class act, from its Warbonnet diesels to how it dealt with derailments. Gordon Glattenberg Back in 1955, when I was 22, I gained my first post-college newspaper reporting job with the Avalanche-Journal in Lubbock, Texas—not exactly the center of the railroad universe. Little did I know that within a few […]
Video: Athearn Trains HO DDA40X Centennial diesel
The Athearn Trains DDA40X Centennial features two motors and two SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoders. See and hear this HO scale model of the world’s largest diesel-electric locomotive in action on the Model Railroader staff’s club model train layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]
Video: Athearn Trains HO DDA40X Centennial diesel
The Athearn Trains DDA40X Centennial features two motors and two SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoders. See and hear this HO scale model of the world’s largest diesel-electric locomotive in action on the Model Railroader staff’s club model train layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]
Waiting is the hardest part
A Canadian National train rolls south through the diamonds at Trenton, Mich., while a Conrail local waits for its turn across on May 18, 2012. Photo by Matt Van Hattem […]
The Belt Railway: A Railroad’s Railroad
In the November 2012 issue of Trains, Sayre C. Kos describes The Belt Railway Company of Chicago’s monstrous hump yard operation, in which cars weave their way from one end to the other. Workers there call it “feeding the Beast.” For another in-depth look at The Belt Railway, download the free PDF below of “A […]
Great Model Railroads 2013 desktop wallpaper
Great Model Railroads 2013 features 10 outstanding railroads in N, HO, and O scales. Use these images from this Model Railroader special issue as backgrounds on your computer screen. Click on the image size appropriate for your monitor and drag the image onto your desktop. Click to order Great Model Railroads 2013! Bob Collett’s HO […]
Inspired by steam
Boston & Maine 4-6-2 3719 was one of the machines that captivated author Graulty. Charles A. Brown I was always fascinated by machines. When I was a boy during the Depression, the most impressive machinery I got to see was steam locomotives. I grew up in Troy, N.Y., on the Hudson River 150 miles north […]
Brian Inch’s kid-friendly O gauge empire
Brian Inch’s son, Riley, loads Atlas O pulpwood flatcars in a section of the layout designed for children to enjoy and change at will. […]
MTH O Gauge EMD SD70ACe Diesel
The Electro-Motive Division’s SD70 series of locomotives is a winner in the world of modern American diesel power. Since 1992, more than 4,000 have been built for the North American and international markets. A variety of sub-models has been cataloged, and the SD70ACe version was first fielded in 2004 and featured a prime mover upgraded […]
Lionel O gauge Union Pacific 4-12-2 steam locomotive
The Union Pacific was known for the large steam power it used to speed freight across the wide-open west. Perhaps the line’s most eccentric design was the 4-12-2. That was a heavy locomotive designed to pull heavy freights at higher speeds over the vast, fruited plains. Alco constructed 88 of the 782,000-pound giants for the […]
O Gauge Lake Shore Limited Set by Williams by Bachmann
The new locomotive I probably had the most fun testing in the past year was certainly the least complex – the new Williams by Bachmann 4-6-0. This O gauge locomotive is a nifty model of a generic steamer that could have been seen in general operation anytime between the 1890s and the 1930s – possibly […]
