Athearn HO scale Bethlehem Steel F89FH flatcar with Whitehead & Kales bi-level Auto-Pack Price: $49.98 Manufacturer Athearn Trains 1600 Forbes Way, Ste. 120 Long Beach, CA 90810 www.athearn.com Era: 1960s to 1980s Road names: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Illinois Central; Norfolk & Western (BTTX and TTBX reporting marks); New York Central; St. Louis-San Francisco; and […]
In this quick video, I show you how to make your own “Wet Water” for scenery application and also demonstrate its effectiveness on a test piece. […]
Rapido Trains HO scale Alco/Montreal Locomotive Works FA-2 and FPA-2 diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives Alco/Montreal Locomotive Works FA-2 and FPA-2 diesel locomotives. FA-2: Baltimore & Ohio (three road numbers), Canadian National (as-delivered scheme with original and new nose heralds, two numbers each), Canadian Pacific (block and script lettering, three numbers each), Erie Lackawanna (three […]
Blair Line HO scale common pile trestle kit Some time ago I purchased and built this kit for a river scene on my newest module. I had never built a wooden kit with this level of detail and found it delightfully challenging at times. The trestle comes with all the required pieces including a piece […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Even in the midst of the extensive tracklaying effort on MRVP’s HO scale Winston-Salem Southbound layout, David Popp continued adding various benchwork and scenery elements. In this video, David Popp brings you up to date on those projects. […]
Thank you for being a loyal Model Railroader newsletter subscriber! Enjoy your Model Train hobby to the fullest! Please enjoy a FREE gift: Room Size Model Railroad we’ve set aside just for you! See downloadable files for your FREE gift. Continue to build your model train layout and […]
The Walthers HO scale San Francisco Chief models one of the famous passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Model Railroader received a sample of each one of the car types and locomotives offered in the series. A pair of F7 locomotives equipped with SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoders […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP9M diesel locomotive. New paint schemes: Alaska RR, Boston & Maine, Chessie System (with Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks), Norfolk Southern (post-1982 company), and Union Pacific (“We can handle it” slogan on cab). One road number per scheme. All-wheel drive and electrical pickup, five-pole can motor with dual flyhweels, and […]
Name: Great Lakes & Western Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 37 x 48 feet Theme: freelanced Class 1 with standard gauge logging and narrow gauge branch lines Locale: Midwest to Western United States Era: 1940s to present day (depends on operating session) Style: walk-in Mainline run: approx. 800 feet Minimum radius: 30″ (main line), 26″ (narrow […]
Name: Manassas Junction, Va. Scale: N (1:160) Size: 34″ x 52.5″ Prototype: Manassas Gap RR and Orange & Alexandria RR Locale: Manassas Junction, Va. Era: July 1861 Style: diorama Mainline run: 4′-4″ Minimum radius: 19″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum grade: none Benchwork: 1 x 2 frame with 1⁄4″ plywood top Height: 47′-6″ Roadbed: built […]
Free software available online, such as Sketchup, can be used to design models that are produced by 3-D printing services like Shapeways. Alex Marchand followed this path to model a CSX class U-13 phosphate hopper in N scale. When I was in high school in the late ’90s, I saw a TV show that ran […]
The Rapido Trains HO scale F40PH-2D features prototype specific detail and sound. The locomotive model features an ESU LokSound Select Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. Watch two F40PH-2D locomotives haul a push-pull passenger train on the Model Railroader staff’s Milwaukee, Racine, and Troy HO scale model railroad. […]
