This video on the Coxton Yard describes how to use the control panel and how the turnouts are thrown using a diode matrix. Video shot by Chuck Davis […]
Member video: Chuck Davis’ HO scale Lehigh Valley RR, Using the Coxton Yard control panel
Type of Train: Electric Locomotives
Member video: Chuck Davis’ HO scale Lehigh Valley RR, Using the Coxton Yard control panel
This video on the Coxton Yard describes how to use the control panel and how the turnouts are thrown using a diode matrix. Video shot by Chuck Davis […]
O gauge MP54 electric multiple unit set from MTH
Price: $499.95 (no. 30-20174-1) Features: O-42 operation, one powered unit and three unpowered cars, interior decoration and illumination, powered unit has two can-style motors, ProtoSound 3.0 sound and control system, coil couplers on powered unit. One of the last, great memorials to the majesty of the Pennsylvania RR is the electrified railway line between New […]
Kato General Electric P42 locomotive with a SoundTraxx DCC decoder
Kato General Electric P42 locomotive with a SoundTraxx DCC decoder Smooth Digital Command Control (DCC) performance and a long list of features make the TSU-KT1000 from SoundTraxx the perfect complement to Kato USA’s outstanding HO scale General Electric P42. I installed the decoder into one of the direct-current (DC) models used in my September 2013 […]
Video: Athearn Genesis HO scale GE ES44AC
The HO scale General Electric ES44AC diesel-electric locomotive from Athearn Trains is part of the firm’s Genesis line and includes prototype-specific detail. The models are also available with SoundTraxx Digital Command Control sound decoders. We ran two of the DCC sound equipped GEVO locomotives on our model railroad. […]
Video: Athearn Genesis HO scale GE ES44AC
The HO scale General Electric ES44AC diesel-electric locomotive from Athearn Trains is part of the firm’s Genesis line and includes prototype-specific detail. The models are also available with SoundTraxx Digital Command Control sound decoders. We ran two of the DCC sound equipped GEVO locomotives on our model railroad. […]
Video: Building a 5 x 8 harbor railroad part 4
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Structures and trackwork dominate this episode of the Model Railroader staff’s Rice Harbor video journal. Associate editor Steve Otte describes the lighthouse for Rice Harbor. Steve built the structure from a Branchline Trains kit, and the model also features a working beacon. Editor […]
Hartland Locomotive Works Birney Safety Streetcar
Marc Horovitz 1:24 scale, gauge-1 streetcar Hartland Locomotive Works PO Box 1743 LaPorte IN 46352 Price: $335.95 Website: www.h-l-w.com All-plastic model of a two-truck Birney streetcar; one powered truck; directional lighting; illuminated interior; power pickup from wheels only (all wheels); dummy trolley poles. Dimensions: Length, 18″; width, 4″; height (over roof), 5¾” Pros: Good […]
Painting a GG-1 on Janis Roguskie’s Reading Lines
[…]
Painting a GG-1 on Janis Roguskie’s Reading Lines
[…]
Building a 5 x 8 harbor railroad part 4
Structures and trackwork dominate this episode of the Model Railroader staff’s Rice Harbor video journal. Associate editor Steve Otte describes the lighthouse for Rice Harbor. Steve built the structure from a Branchline Trains kit, and the model also features a working beacon. Editor Neil Besougloff is also at the workbench finishing up a depot, coal […]
Industrial legacy
Amtrak AEM-7 No. 907 rolls north at Marcus Hook, Pa., about 15 miles south of Philadelphia on the Northeast Corridor, on April 7, 2013. The train is passing through the industrial landscape typical of the Northeast. Photo by Michael T. Burkhart […]
