Life along the Winnegance & Quebec

Garden scale figure operating a similar sized hand car.

Name:    Eric Schade Forum User Name:    captain perry Railroad Name:    Winnegance and Quebec Location:    Phippsburg, Maine Scale:    1:13.7 (7/8″=1 foot) Theme:    Maine two foot gauge Description:    Life in small town Maine is full of interesting characters. you see some of them as the train snakes through the woods and over the covered bridges. Most of […]

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Member video: Old time log loading

Old time log loading

This video features prototypical log loading on flatcars in the Cloquet Valley, Minnesota. The homemade log jammer is modeled after a photograph of an early unit. Technique and tools are typical of the time. Also shows the process of moving logs from the woods. Was in use about 1920, but could have been used up […]

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Member video: C&O and Loup Creek Branch Line

C&O and Loup Creek Branch Line

A video description of the features on my HO layout. It includes a working coal loader that runs loads to the two coaling towers on the layout. It is a prototypical depiction of the C&O and Loup Creek Branch Line interchange at Thurmond, West Virginia. It is an around-the-wall, shelf-style layout in a 10×12 bedroom. […]

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Member video: C&NW 400 HO scale passenger train part 2

C&NW 400 HO scale passenger train part 2

C&NW 400 HO model Passenger Train (Part2) from GBA Productions on Vimeo. This video shows two Broadway Limited C&NW E7As pulling eight brass Nickle Plate passenger cars on my C&NW model railroad. This is an update from an earlier video, with more scenery completed. In this version, the 400 stops at Lakeview station to pick […]

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The new layout at Stockyard Express

The new layout at Stockyard Express

Name:    Adam Matthews Railroad Name:    The New Layout at Stockyard Express Location:    Oberlin, Ohio Scale:    O Theme:    Freelanced hi-rail Description:    Take a ride around the New Layout at Stockyard Express LLC. The layout features FasTrack but all the trains are from MTH. […]

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