Click on the links at left to download the image sized appropriately for your computer screen. The sun is setting on Magoun Pier in this HO scale scene. Greg Shinnie of Baden, Ont., built the waterfront module and photographed the scene under natural light. Click on the links below to download the image sized appropriately […]
Union Pacific road diesels lead a stack train along the Meadow Valley Wash. Dick Christianson explains how he scenicked this side of our N scale project layout. photo by Bill Zuback Fig. 1 Cutting foam. Dick’s friend Stener Harildstad used a serrated kitchen knife to cut the extruded-foam insulation board. The sloping contour of the […]
Dick Christianson explains how to wire the Salt Lake Route for Digital Command Control. He concealed the system’s command station in a drawer built beneath the layout’s intermodal yard. Bill Zuback photo Fig. 1 Power feeders. Last month Dick explained how to install Kato Unitrack power feeders during tracklaying. He used plug-in sections on the […]
A pair of Union Pacific freights bank into the superelevated curves on the N scale Salt Lake Route. Dick Christianson explains how he installed Kato Unitrack, including the firm’s new double-track sections with superelevated curves (inset), on our project layout. One of the parameters Model Railroader gave me regarding the N scale project layout was […]
Looking for model railroad track-related products? Here’s a partial list of suppliers. Track manufacturers Here is a partial list of suppliers of track and related products. Atlas Model RR Co. www.atlasrr.com Z, N, HO, and O scale sectional and flextrack Bachmann Trains www.bachmanntrains.com N and HO sectional track BK Enterprises (Trout Creek Engineering) www.troutcreekeng.com N, […]
Click on the links at left to download this image sized appropriately for your computer screen. A wood-burning Shay passes a coal loader on the large scale narrow gauge layout built by the Sundance Central club in Florida. Model Railroader contributing editor Lou Sassi took the photo. Click on the links below to download the […]
Stener Harildstad holds one end of the N scale Salt Lake Route with the legs folded up inside the L girders. This month, learn how to build easy-to-transport benchwork with folding legs for our 4 x 9-foot project layout. A pair of Union Pacific freights meet on the Meadow Valley Wash side of the layout. […]
The rugged mountain desert scenery of the Meadow Valley Wash provides a picturesque backdrop for trains on the N scale Union Pacific Salt Lake Route. The 4 x 9-foot model railroad, built by retired managing editor Dick Christianson, features Kato Unitrack with superelevated curves. Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno and graphic designer Drew Halverson […]
Click on the links at left to download this image sized appropriately for your computer screen. Pat Ryan built and photographed this HO scale model railroad scene of the Norfolk & Western Powhatan Arrow rounding a river bend as a Virginian Ry. coal train rumbles across a steel truss bridge. Click on the links below […]
Use the ideas in this booklet to get started today on how-to projects to add realistic detail to your toy train layout. Inside, you’ll find: Three ways to make rivers and lakes Instructions to create a realistic wood roadway crossing 20 easy scenery tips A step-by-step guide to drawing a track plan Enter your email […]
Whether your toy train layouts are basic or hi-rail, we’ve assembled scenery projects to inspire you to make your railroad all you want it to be! Inside, you’ll learn how to: Make a gorge or creek bed for an O or S gauge railroad Create a miniature welding scene or quick-and-easy junked cars Use forced […]
This 15-page supplement includes: Tips for more operational possibility Full-color schematics A handy checklist for planning your layout Suggestions for improving the space around your railroad Ways to make offstage yards operate flawlessly Enter your email below to sign up for our weekly newsletter and get your free download! […]
