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Name: Trevor Park Railroad Name: Fern Creek and Western Railroad Location: Santa Cruz, CA Scale: 1:20.3 Theme: Coastal Mountain Narrow Gauge Description: Engine #3, on lease from the South Pacific Coast Railway, leads a passenger train over the Fern Creek and Western Garden Railroad between the towns of Parkston and Ericsville. Complete with station stops […]
Ride along on a trip around Dan Flanagan’s Great Northern Pacific HO scale layout. He mounted a GoPro camera on a flatcar at boxcar height, with a caboose roof just under the lens, and put it at the end of a freight pulled by a 2-8-0 Consolidation. […]
Mid-1950s Southern Pacific trains are featured in this edition of Extreme Trains: a 106 car mixed freight with three cab forward helpers; The City of San Francisco streamliner with Alco PAs; and a PFE refrigerator train with two cab forward locomotives. Video by Bill Rogers. […]
Lester Perry’s HO scale Chesapeake & Ohio model railroad was built in a 13′ x 17′ out building with a dirt floor and no electricity — more than 300 feet from the main building. He used an MRC DCC system. Video by Bill Fagan. […]
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This video was one of the entries in a recent video contest of the NMRA South Central Wisconsin Division. The video features Milwaukee Road 261 4-8-4 pulling an excursion train through La Crosse, Wis., on BNSF trackage in 2002. […]
“Rail Ramblings 1937,” produced by Ken Hojnacki, was the first-place winner in the recent video contest conducted by the South Central Wisconsin Division – NMRA. […]
“A Set-Out and a Pick-up” was the second place winner in the model category in the recent video contest of the South Central Wisconsin Division – NMRA. The video was produced by Bob Wundrock on his HO scale Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie layout. […]
Owner: John Brennan Prototype Modeled: Interchange with EJ&E, IC , CB&Q Reporting Marks: CP&W Layout Era: Sept. 1940 Theme: Midwestern Scale: HO The railroad is an overlay of the CB&Q from Chicago staging to Galesburg staging. There are 23 trains scheduled in three-hour session on a 4 to 1 fast clock. Power is almost exclusively […]
This HO scale masterpiece is a double-deck proto-lance 1950s-era layout built by Guy Cantwell that represents parts of California’s central valley, as well as the railroads that operated in the Sierra foothills and mountains. It features prototypes from the Southern Pacific, Western Pacific/Tidewater Southern, Sierra, Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite Valley Railroad, and West Side Railroads. Most […]
This is a short segment of which many were unaware was at the end of the 1950’s movie of HO scale custom-made Aerotrain. Video by Bruce Kingsley. […]
Three CMRM volunteer trains brought to Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s BNSF Days are featured. There is a combined El Capitan – Super Chief, a grain train composed of cars from a variety (most BNSF heritage roads) railroads, and a Santa Fe intermodal train from the 1990s. […]
