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Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page See and hear a new ESU LokSound-equipped N scale GE Dash 9-44CW from ScaleTrains.com in Cody’s Office, part 2 for February 2020. You’ll also learn about a new HO caboose from Atlas and a new rail-served industry title from Kalmbach Books. At the […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this episode of IMRR, host Steve Brown works on his N scale Port Smith to paint, weather, and ballast the trackwork, add a grade crossing, repaint the pavement, install structures, and lay down the base for the river. All this is done […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Gerry can’t get enough of the time-tested, helpful modeling suggestions offered up by Model Railroader magazine readers from the early days of the hobby. Don’t be surprised if you discover just how useful many of these construction tricks still are today! […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MRVP’s Kathy Millatt shares a simple way to model an icy shoreline on her HO scale (1:87.1) wintry diorama. Even better, Kathy’s technique doesn’t require a single drop of resin to create ultra-realistic frozen effects! […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MRVP reboots the popular Rehab My Railroad series with a new project effort on Model Railroader magazine’s HO scale Milwaukee, Racine, & Troy (MR&T) model railroad. Reality quickly sets in when top-notch modelers David Popp and Cody Grivno start sizing up Jones Island […]
What could you have seen at the annual (all scales) Railroad Hobby Show held in Springfield, Massachusetts, on January 25-26, 2020? Follow along as MR associate editor Eric White shares his walk-and-talk tour of the various buildings of the Eastern States Expo Fairgrounds, each housing all sorts of vendors, displays, layouts, and so much more! […]
Click on the links at left to download this image sized appropriately for your computer screen. Lance Mindheim As evening approaches, Los Angeles Junction Ry. no. 2619, a Santa Fe-rebuilt CF7, crosses District Boulevard in Los Angeles. Frequent Model Railroader contributor Lance Mindheim photographed the scene on his HO scale shelf layout. Click on the […]
Gary Hoover’s HO scale Norfolk & Western of the 1950s layout graces the cover of the April issue of Model Railroader magazine. The model railroad is inspired by famed railroad photographer O. Winston Link’s images of the last days of steam on the N&W. You’ll also tour a railroad set along the Virginia & Truckee […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD40-2. BNSF Ry. (four Burlington Northern patchouts); Burlington Northern (as-delivered scheme); Chessie System (Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks), Chicago & North Western (Stagecoach and Zito Yellow schemes); CSX (Chessie System patchout, “S” scheme, and YN2 scheme); and Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern (standard blue-and-yellow and Mt. Rushmore schemes). Multiple road numbers […]
All this month — February 2020 — Classic Trains editors are celebrating the heritage, history, and images of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad. Please enjoy this photo gallery of images from the David P. Morgan Library archives at Kalmbach Media that include Nickel Plate diesel- and steam-powered freight trains through time. You […]
Classic Trains editors are celebrating the heritage, history, and lore of famed (and infamous) railroads. In February 2020, we celebrate the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad. Please enjoy a collection of locomotive images located in the David P. Morgan Library archives at Kalmbach Media that include the Nickel Plate Road’s iconic locomotives and […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Before the demise of his HO scale Bona Vista Rwy., MRVP Contributing Editor Gerry Leone couldn’t help but to launch into one final layout project. Follow along with Gerry’s effort to turn a vacant space into a town location he’s named Eagle […]
