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Marc Horovitz Marc Horovitz This 1:20.3-scale figure may look right for this 1:32-scale locomotive but if you tried to put him into the cab you’d quickly realize your error. Marc Horovitz These three models are all of similar prototypes—3′-narrow-gauge boxcars. In the foreground is an early Hartford Products car in 1:24 scale; in the middle […]
Common scales of large scale trains: Most of us have had this experience as we got started in garden railroading: You go to the hobby shop or look online, looking for equipment for your new railroad. It’s all large scale and it all looks good. But the more you look, the less comprehensible your choices […]
Question: I just purchased the Model Railroader animated sign [available from the Kalmbach Hobby Store at kalmbachhobbystore.com/product/ layout-accesory/84033 – Ed.]. I also have a resin kit of “The Birthplace of Model Railroader” sitting on the shelf. Not that the combination would be prototypical in any way, but I’m considering using the two together on a […]
Click on the links at left to download this image sized appropriately for your computer screen. A Boston & Maine 4-8-2 Mountain-type steam locomotive rolls past Superior Bakery on Thomas Oxnard’s HO scale layout featured in the May 2020 Model Railroader. Click on the links below to download the image sized appropriately for use as […]
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 […]
Click on the links at left to download this image sized appropriately for your computer screen. The prominent sign of the beverage store at Thomasville Crossing is a prominent scene on Brian Wolfe’s HO scale Western Maryland Ry. Blue Ridge Division model train layout. The image is also this month’s featured desktop wallpaper download. Click […]
Click on the links at left to download this image sized appropriately for your computer screen. Nickel Plate Road train No. 43, a westbound fast freight from Toledo, eases into the siding as “Rocket” FT-98 behind 2-8-2 Mikado no. 597 holds the main on Warner Clark’s O scale Proto:48 layout. Rich Bourgerie took the photo. […]
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Click on the links at left to download this image sized appropriately for your computer screen. It’s early summer, 1939, and a pair of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Electro-Motive Division E1 diesel locomotives lead crack passenger train Super Chief on Ray Miecko’s HO scale layout. Click on the links below to download the image […]
