Vintage 1930s Marx trains

two Marx trains from the 1930s

Name:    Todd Hein Description:    This video shows two Marx trains from the 1930’s, one is a 1934 M10000, and the other is a Commodore Vanderbilt with a mixed train of cars from the same year. […]

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Small shelf layout

Scene of a small shelf model railroad

Alejandro’s small shelf layout measures 9.51 x 7.55 feet with an average width of 1.31 feet. The layout is set in the mid-1970s somewhere between Oregon and Washington (previously Great Lakes area). […]

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Volcanoes DO belong on layouts

Model of a volcano

There is a cartoon on page 81 of the November 2017 Model Railroader which seems to say that a volcano can’t be put on a model railroad layout. Our model railroad club (South Hills Model RR Club) uses the free-mo modular standards for the layout that we assemble for shows and we DO have a […]

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Bruce Petty’s Southern Pacific MUG train

ogue Valley Model Railroad Club's HO scale Pacific & Eastern layout

Bruce Petty painted and decaled Tyco flatcars to represent an eastbound Southern Pacific train that originated at L.A.’s Taylor Yard and took empty flats back to the mills of Southern Oregon. Watch the train run on the Rogue Valley Model Railroad Club’s HO scale Pacific & Eastern layout. You can read all about this layout […]

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Climbing the grade on the AddleDoo Bush Tramway

Name: Rob Mackay-Wood Forum User Name: RobMW Railroad Name: AddleDoo Bush Tramway Location: Brisbane, Australia Scale: G Scale Theme: Bush Logging and Mining in Australia/New Zealand (Freelance) Description: In light of the October 2017 article in GRW on gradients, I thought this video of my Regner Lumberjack climbing a steep 11% grade (1:8.5) might be […]

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