Bridgewerks The Morrison

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William Zuback Manufacturer Bridgewerks, Inc. 2522 N. Proctor St. Suite 249 Tacoma WA 98406 www.bridgewerks.com Price: $275.00 William Zuback Renowned for its stable of large, high-amp direct-current (DC) power supplies, Bridgewerks deviates from the norm to introduce a small, yet sleek, power controller intended for modest sized railroads. The all-new Morrison Controller is a 3A […]

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MTH General Electric Dash 8-40CW diesel locomotive

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William Zuback Manufacturer MTH Electric Trains 7020 Columbia Gateway Dr. Columbia MD 21046-1532 www.mthtrains.com Price: $749.95 Era: 1992 to 1999 (as decorated) Road names: Dash 8-40CW – CSX “The Spirit of America” [no. 1992 with Presidential seal and no. 7812 without] and “boxcar” herald); Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Canadian National; Conrail; and Norfolk Southern. […]

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PIKO America General Electric 25-ton switcher

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Piko 38502 Blue Goose William Zuback Manufacturer PIKO America LLC 4610 Alvarado Canyon Road, Suite 5 San Diego CA 92120 www.piko-america.com Price: $199.99 (Track cleaning version is $229.99) Paint schemes: Denver & Rio Grande Western and painted blue and yellow but unlettered. Track cleaning version is painted yellow and black with Clean Machine/Maintenance of Way […]

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Create inspired spaces

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In the Spring 2019 issue, Nancy Norris shares photographs of nine public spaces designed to inspire you. We’ve assembled all of the related links here for you to access quickly. Gabis Arboretum at Purdue University: tinyurl.com/gabisarboretum A “The sedum spectrum,” June 2013. B “Using red in the railway,” June 2014. C “Massing plants to frame […]

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Winter running on the CPR Joy Division

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Name: Kent Johnson Railroad Name: Canadian Pacific Joy Division Location: Milwaukee, Wisc. Scale: 1:29 Theme: Modern-era branch line in Western Canada Description: The sun was making a weak effort to shine over the CPR Joy Division garden railroad on a cold January afternoon. Even so, I still wanted to capture the inaugural run of my […]

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High-tech modeling for garden railroaders

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In the 3D printing world the two most common filaments used are PLA and ABS. There are other filaments available, each with advantages and disadvantages, and I discussed some of them in Part 17. This time, we are going to look at Nylon. Nylon has many characteristics that makes it desirable as a 3D printed […]

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Model the desert

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The skeleton of a desert in progress at Scott Kennedy’s East Bay Union Railroad at one end of his dogbone trackplan. A flagstone plateau supports the track and retains soil while a dry creek provides drainage and a footpath. Nancy Norris In the fleshed-out desert, a dwarf, blue-green olive tree (Olea ‘Little Ollie’) flanks the […]

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