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Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Host Hal Miller brings Model Railroader magazine editor Neil Besougloff and Classic Toy Trains magazine associate editor Bob Keller to the table to talk tinplate trains. The guys discuss their on-going affinity for vintage toy trains, accessories, and the simple, yet accessible, mechanisms […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Host Hal Miller brings Model Railroader magazine editor Neil Besougloff and Classic Toy Trains magazine associate editor Bob Keller to the table to talk tinplate trains. The guys discuss their on-going affinity for vintage toy trains, accessories, and the simple, yet accessible, mechanisms […]
The September 2014 issue’s Collectible Classic discusses this interesting boxcar. Joe Algozzini provides detailed information about the variations of this car. […]
The September 2014 issue’s Collectible Classic discusses this interesting boxcar. Joe Algozzini provides detailed information about the variations of this car. […]
Name: Southern Ry. RatholeDivision Layout designer: Bob Lawson Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 32 x 52 feet Prototype: Southern Ry. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Division Locale: Cincinnati, central Kentucky, and eastern Tennessee Era: 1945 to early 1950s Style: around-the-walls with attached center island Mainline run: 200 feet (Southern) Minimum radius: 48″ Minimum turnout: no. […]
Name: Hudson, Delaware & Lehigh Layout designer: Gary Schaff Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 13′-6″ x 35′-0″ Prototype: Central of New Jersey and Pennsylvania RR Locale: Jersey City, N.J., to Mauch Chunk, Pa. Era: early 1950s Style: walk-in Mainline run: CNJ, 170 feet; PRR, 108 feet Minimum radius: 27″ Minimum turnout: no. 5 Maximum grade: 3.5 […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Frank Henry Fieler’s HO scale Sandy Fork Lumber Co. is a freelanced HO scale model railroad that’s set in West Virginia in the 1960s. The layout is inspired by the Elk River Coal & Lumber Co. and other West Virginia logging railroads. Watch […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Frank Henry Fieler’s HO scale Sandy Fork Lumber Co. is a freelanced HO scale model railroad that’s set in West Virginia in the 1960s. The layout is inspired by the Elk River Coal & Lumber Co. and other West Virginia logging railroads. Watch […]
Name: Joachin, Va. Layout designer: Peter North Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 6 x 10 feet Prototype: Virginian Ry. Locale: Virginia Era: 1950s Style: Island Mainline run: 19 feet Minimum radius: 22″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 4 percent Originally appeared in the July 2014 Model Railroader. Click on the link to download the PDF […]
Name: Oak Valley RR Layout designer: Hans Wolfram Nicolaus Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 11′-6″ x 13′-10″ Theme: freelanced branch line operated jointly by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. and the Southern Pacific RR Locale: California Era: 1960s Style: around the walls with peninsula Mainline run: 66 feet Minimum radius: 26″ Minimum turnout: no. […]
Name: Sandy Fork Lumber Co. Layout designer: Henry Fieler Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 9 x 16 feet Prototype: Elk River Coal & Lumber and other West Virginia logging railroads Locale: West Virginia Era: 1960s Style: walk-in Benchwork: 1 x 2 and 1 x 3 grid Height: 43″ to 58″ Roadbed: cork Track: handlaid code 70 […]
For many years small towns were a major source of traffic for railroads all across the country. Long before anyone ever heard of freeways, the railroads moved all sorts of carload and less-than-carload lot (LCL) freight that kept the local businesses and nearby agricultural economy going. A local station agent-operator was the railroad’s representative who […]
