Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page What’s new in Cody’s Office? Check out sound-equipped Pennsy E units in HO from Walthers, MR&T cabooses in N from Atlas, and more in this month’s episode. Down in the Model Railroader workshop associate editor Cody Grivno also gives you tips for adding […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Cody continues working in his emergency grain car project. This time he’s showing a few more painting and weathering techniques used to give the plastic parts the look of real wood. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Cody continues working in his emergency grain car project. This time he’s showing a few more painting and weathering techniques used to give the plastic parts the look of real wood. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Dana Kawala, senior editor for Model Railroader magazine, recently got his hands on a unique product, the ProtoThrottle from Iowa Scaled Engineering. Watch this video to see how Dana uses the ProtoThrottle’s realistically modeled levers, buttons, and dials to enhance the operation of […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Dana Kawala, senior editor for Model Railroader magazine, recently got his hands on a unique product, the ProtoThrottle from Iowa Scaled Engineering. Watch this video to see how Dana uses the ProtoThrottle’s realistically modeled levers, buttons, and dials to enhance the operation of […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Host Kathy Millatt shows you how to build a better-looking boggy area to compliment the forests on your layout. Her secret to success in this scene is a base application of brown floor grout. Watch and learn the tips and tricks she employs […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Host Kathy Millatt shows you how to build a better-looking boggy area to compliment the forests on your layout. Her secret to success in this scene is a base application of brown floor grout. Watch and learn the tips and tricks she employs […]
Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Chesapeake & Ohio class J3a 4-8-4 Greenbrier steam locomotive HO scale locomotives Chesapeake & Ohio class J3a 4-8-4 Greenbrier steam locomotive. “The Greenbrier Presidential Express” (one road number), in-service version (with smoke deflectors in one number, without in four numbers), and excursion service (Chesapeake & Ohio, Chessie System Railroads, and […]
Rapido Trains HO Budd Rail Diesel Car The car that revived branchline passenger operations for many railroads after World War II stands ready to do the same for HO scale railroads. Rapido Trains has released a highly accurate model of the Budd Rail Diesel Car, or RDC, in three body styles. Available equipped with an […]
Atlas HO scale AEM-7 electric locomotive The AEM-7 may have been retired by Amtrak, but Atlas has brought back its HO model, with a new Electronic Solutions Ulm LokSound Select dual-mode decoder, for another run. Since Model Railroader last reviewed this model in the March 2000 issue, sound-equipped locomotives have proliferated. Bringing the model back […]
Bachmann HO scale bay window caboose Price: $59 Manufacturer Bachmann Trains 1400 E. Erie Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19124 www.bachmanntrains.com Era: 1952 to 1964 (as decorated) Comments: For those who want to add variety to their caboose fleets, these HO scale bay-window cabooses from Bachmann Trains are worth a look. The plastic models are built with […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD45T-2 diesel locomotive. National Railway Equipment (Southern Pacific speed and Roman lettering patchouts and painted light gray with red lettering in one road number each), Montana Rail Link (fictional paint scheme, three numbers), Southern Ry. of British Columbia (fictional paint scheme, one number), St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt, American Revolution […]
