In this installment, we’ll take a look at SCN Train 202, the Eastbound Perishable. […]
Operating the Santa Cruz Northern, Part 2
Section: Layout Visits
Video: Lee Marsh’s HO scale Great Northern Cascade Division
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Lee Marsh’s HO scale Great Northern Ry. Cascade Division features stunning mountain scenery inspired by Stevens Pass in Washington State. In this short video, follow some of the superdetailed transition-era trains and they roll along the main line. […]
Video: Lee Marsh’s HO scale Great Northern Cascade Division
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Lee Marsh’s HO scale Great Northern Ry. Cascade Division features stunning mountain scenery inspired by Stevens Pass in Washington State. In this short video, follow some of the superdetailed transition-era trains and they roll along the main line. […]
Model railroad operations
In this video, Bob Wundrock shows how he assembles a train for operations on his developing layout. […]
HO scale passenger train
Watch this HO scale passenger train as it passes through a crossing on Louis Showers’ freelanced Erie-Lackawanna layout. The engines are F2 ABA Bachmann locomotives with sound. The cars are IHC smooth side passenger cars to which he added body-mounted couplers, interiors, lights, and Walther’s Proto power capable trucks. […]
Wintergreen Junction
Welcome to Wintergreen Junction, a fictional place located somewhere in the great north, snow covered nearly year round. In reality, this is a new 3 x 3-foot N scale layout built between Thanksgiving and Christmas this past year. Although unfinished (ran out of time), this layout will continue to evolve in the years ahead. Enjoy […]
Video: Thomas Oxnard’s HO scale Boston & Maine
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Thomas Oxnard’s recently expanded Boston & Maine model train layout fills 18 x 28 feet with scenes of New England railroading in the early 1950s. Enjoy this look at steam- and diesel-led trains running along the main line. […]
Video: Thomas Oxnard’s HO scale Boston & Maine
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Thomas Oxnard’s recently expanded Boston & Maine model train layout fills 18 x 28 feet with scenes of New England railroading in the early 1950s. Enjoy this look at steam- and diesel-led trains running along the main line. […]
B&O 195 box cab lives again
Today we find B&O # 195 box cab delivering two tank cars to the Criswell Oil Company and picking up the empties. Model is a Roundhouse from which the internal mechanisms and trucks have been removed. They are replaced with Stanton power and non-powered trucks from North West Short Line. Added features include an ESU […]
Roots run deep
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Crossing US Highway 6 in Iowa City on the HO scale Iowa Interstate RR
Iowa Interstate RR no. 715 leads Train ICSW-22 across US Highway 6 in Iowa City on the HO scale IAIS Hills Industrial Spur. More information on The Hills Line at http://thehillsline.com. Video by James McNab. […]
The Big Boy up close and personal
A bit of a departure from my model railroad, but worth the journey to experience the real thing … and I mean EXPERIENCE! Count the rivets … smell the tar … feel the steam … vibrate with the ground … as THE BIG BOY rolls by an arms length away. Enjoy this intimate view of […]
