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Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page You can improve the operation on most any railroad by installing turnouts with powered frogs. David shows you how we set up the Thin Branch project railroad with turnout frogs powered through switch motor contacts. […]
In the September 2013 issue, visit Caryl Pettijohn’s Hollyberry Farm Train Barn, a stone barn converted into a home for Caryl’s stunning 44 x 60-foot Standard gauge layout. […]
The Luciani Transcon presents railroading in the contemporary southwestern U.S. on a 17 x 47-foot O gauge layout. […]
This powerful and intricately detailed diesel represents the new face of S gauge. Watch it in action! […]
You’ve seen Senior Editor Kent Johnson’s Canadian Pacific layout in a number of how-to articles and Weekend Workshops in the pages of CTT – now let the man himself take you on a tour of his realistic, modern O gauge layout. This video is courtesy of our friends at Model Railroader Video Plus. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Associate editor Cody Grivno shows you his technique on how to fade freight cars. He’ll also show you some new model railroading products in HO and N scales, including the Walther’s 0-8-0 steam locomotive with DCC and sound. Viewer mail includes questions about […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader and Classic Toy Trains staff member Kent Johnson has a fabulous 3-rail O scale layout in his basement depicting the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Kent applies the same weathering and realism to his toy-train layout that one would to a scale railroad, […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Walthers has released a new version of the firm’s HO scale bi-level Pullman Standard commuter passenger cars decorated for the Chicago & North Western RR. The new models feature detailed interiors and lighting, and MR’s Jim Hediger makes a detailed survey of the […]
In the September 2013 issue, explore Jeff Silk’s stunning 26 x 50-foot O gauge Mount Marlborough RR. This layout takes you across the Golden State through landscapes inspired by the Silk family’s favorite destinations. This video is courtesy of TM Books & Video. […]
The Sunset Models HO scale class Z-8 Challenger is a superdetailed brass locomotive that accurately models the Northern Pacific prototype. The HO scale 4-6-6-4 also features a QSI Titan Digital Command Control (DCC) stereo sound decoder. See and hear the Challenger haul a freight train on our club layout. […]
A Mantua 0-4-0 is the test bed here. I’ve replaced the original open-frame motor with a can motor. I then added a Micro Tsunami and a KA2 module from TCS. No modifications were done concerning electrical pickup. It still only picks up current on the right from the engine’s two wheels, and the four left […]
It’s not often you get to see railroad history in the making, but these video clips of Norfolk Southern intermodal trains in the Blue Ridge Mountains show just that. You’ll be watching trains 201 and 202, which started running in January of 2013 between Memphis and the Northeast on the Crescent Corridor. This new corridor […]
