Broadway Limited Imports upgraded its HO scale Pennsylvania RR K4s with its Paragon2 Digital Command Control sound decoder and electronics. The model also features lighting effects and puffing smoke. Watch the HO scale steam locomotive as it hauls a PRR passenger consist around the Model Railroader staff’s club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]
Type of Train: Steam Locomotive
Video: Broadway Limited Imports Paragon2 HO scale PRR K4s
Broadway Limited Imports upgraded its HO scale Pennsylvania RR K4s with its Paragon2 Digital Command Control sound decoder and electronics. The model also features lighting effects and puffing smoke. Watch the HO scale steam locomotive as it hauls a PRR passenger consist around the Model Railroader staff’s club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]
Chasing 4014: Part III
This video segment covers the time from when Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 first reached Covina, Calif., in the early morning hours of Jan. 26 to mid-morning in Bassett, Calif. Follow along as Steve Sweeney, Howard Bunte, and Brent Lane chase the 4-8-8-4 locomotive switch from the Metrolink main line to Union Pacific tracks. […]
Chasing 4014: Part III
This video segment covers the time from when Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 first reached Covina, Calif., in the early morning hours of Jan. 26 to mid-morning in Bassett, Calif. Follow along as Steve Sweeney, Howard Bunte, and Brent Lane chase the 4-8-8-4 locomotive switch from the Metrolink main line to Union Pacific tracks. […]
Chasing 4014 Part II
This second installment of videos from Trains’ zany chase of Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 from Pomona to West Colton, Calif., takes off minutes from where Part I ended: with the Big Boy on the Metrolink main line at 2:30 a.m., and Steve Sweeney, Howard Bunte, and Brent Lane in hot pursuit. Enjoy! […]
Chasing 4014 Part II
This second installment of videos from Trains’ zany chase of Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 from Pomona to West Colton, Calif., takes off minutes from where Part I ended: with the Big Boy on the Metrolink main line at 2:30 a.m., and Steve Sweeney, Howard Bunte, and Brent Lane in hot pursuit. Enjoy! […]
Rio Grande Articulateds and the California Zephyr
Watch video clips of big steam locomotives and the California Zephyr in action on the Denver & Rio Grande Western from the Sunday River Productions DVD programs “Otto Perry’s Rio Grande Articulateds” and “Burlington Zephyrs.” […]
Rio Grande Articulateds and the California Zephyr
Watch video clips of big steam locomotives and the California Zephyr in action on the Denver & Rio Grande Western from the Sunday River Productions DVD programs “Otto Perry’s Rio Grande Articulateds” and “Burlington Zephyrs.” […]
O gauge Polar Express set with LionChief remote control
This is an O gauge set that wouldn’t normally be making a second appearance in reviews. We covered Lionel’s Polar Express in the January 2005 issue of Classic Toy Trains. It was a good model of the train in the movie Polar Express, and we had high hopes it would be a natural draw for […]
Trains News Wire VIDEO: Interview with Ed Dickens on moving Big Boy No. 4014 NEWSWIRE
POMONA, Calif. – Trains Editor Jim Wrinn interviews Union Pacific steam manager Ed Dickens on moving 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4014 across the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in and on to Cheyenne. […]
UP Big Boy No. 4014 will roll Jan. 26 NEWSWIRE
Union Pacific moved No. 4014 across the fairgrounds in November in anticipation of January’s move from the park. Jim Wrinn POMONA, Calif. – The long awaited day when Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 will return to the national rail system is at hand. Mark Jan. 26 as a red letter day in the history […]
Dixie Creek ore train to the mines
A Joe Works HOn30 Shay pulls a string of ore cars from the processing mill back to the mining district. The train will climb approximately 17″ from the mine site. The elevation is possible on the rugged 3′ x 7′ section of the layout by utilizing a helix on each end of this part of […]
