Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Get a look at the new SoundTraxx DCC equipped Athearn GP50 in this month’s episode of Cody’s Office. You’ll also see new model train products from Atlas, ExactRail, Piko America, and Walthers. In this month’s modeling tip, Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Dana Kawala starts a new series on Digital Command Control programming for the common model railroader. In this installment, Dana shows you how to program 2 and 4-digit locomotive addresses. If you’re new to DCC, you don’t want to miss this series! […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page This episode of The Roundhouse brings Tony Koester back, this time to discuss favorite (and least favorite) modeling tasks among other fun topics! […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Dirty track can take all the fun out of model railroading. Kent Johnson shows you how easy it is to shine up the rails and keep your trains rolling smoothly in this video. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In our final backdrop painting installment, artist Jay Smith shows you how to add clouds to the sky of your model railroad. To complete the scene, he also provides tips for painting simple birds. Look for Jay’s other backdrop-painting videos on MR Video […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page For our Thin Branch project railroad, David used foam insulation board as a base for much of the scenery. In this video installment, he shows how he used the foam to build a simple tunnel liner. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In our second foam scenery installment, David shows how he built a variety of hills by stacking strips of foam insulation board. He also covers some basic shaping and finishing techniques in this video. […]
In part 2 of Drew’s trip to Chicago, he visits two towers along Metra’s former Milwaukee Road lines – A5 and A2. In this video, Drew gives you a close-up look inside the towers, and you get to meet the people who run these busy railroad junction points. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In the 1970s, then editor Linn Westcott asked young associate editor Jim Hediger to build an HO model of the Auto-Train for the cover of the December 1974 issue of MR – all 38 cars of it! Jim shares the models he built […]
David Smith’s 4 x 6-foot O gauge holiday display uses a pie-shaped platform to run his toy trains under a full-size Christmas tree. Learn how to build this attractive and compact display bursting with holiday cheer in the December issue. […]
Jay Cain’s O-27 empire was one of the last O gauge layouts to be featured in our sister publication, Model Railroader. This new 12 x 30-foot O gauge layout reflects his wealth of experience in the hobby, along with his artistic and mechanical talents and vast imagination. […]
Drop-in decoders make installing DCC in N scale locomotives about as easy as it gets. In this video David shows you how to install a TCS K4D6 decoder and K4LK lighting module in an N scale Kato MP36PH diesel locomotive. […]
