Click on the links at left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4-8-4 pulls a manifest freight over the mountains on Les Illes’ HO scale Santa Fe Eastern, a freelanced model railroad set in the American Southwest. Click on the links below to download the […]
Click on the links to the left to download the image sized appropriately for your computer screen. Snow has melted along the right-of-way, making roads muddy, on this bright April day in Maine as Forney engine no. 9, with Ed West at the throttle, passes South Strong station. Lou Sassi, a frequent contributor to Model […]
GoPro cameras, cell-phone cameras, and video-capable DSLR cameras are everywhere. This column will review a dozen examples of video technique from my “Video 101” workshop, presented at the National Garden Railway Convention. Columns will include suggestions, with photographic links to a short demonstration videos of some Bay Area railroads. I recently saw a man filming […]
Don’t miss the 10 inspiring layouts featured in Great Model Railroads 2017. This special issue of Model Railroader magazine features a wide variety of model train layouts in N, HO, and O scales. As a special online bonus, you can download computer desktop wallpaper from each of the featured layouts. Want to see more of […]
Click on the links to the left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. Bona Vista RR Consolidation no. 28 belches smoke as it heads upgrade on frequent Model Railroader contributor Gerry Leone’s new HO scale Bona Vista RR, currently under construction. Click on the links below to download the appropriate image […]
Click on the links to the left to download the appropriately sized image for your computer screen. High on the Mousebelly Branch of the 3-foot-gauge Devil’s Gulch & Helengon RR, engineer “Wild Bill” McFlannel guides his train of silver ore. Ron Foreman took this trackside photo on his HOn3 diorama. Click on the links to […]
Click on the links to the left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. The in-plant switcher pulls a cut of hot-metal cars from the basic oxygen furnace past empty slag cars sitting next to the blast furnace. The steel industry is the focus of the latest phase of Rick Crumrine’s HO […]
Click on the links to the left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. The Mosquito Creek Lumber Co.’s lone Climax locomotive leads the “Clean-Up Train” across a low bridge over the algae-covered swamps of Louisiana. Joseph Kreiss of Fairmont, Minn., whose HO scale Big Island Rail layout was featured in the […]
Click on the links to the left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. The stationmaster at Maple Valley flags down the Red Arrow for a passenger stop on Greg Rich’s HO scale New Baltimore & Fair Haven Ry. Greg detailed and painted 4-4-0 no. 44, a Bachmann model. The station was […]
Click on the links to the left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. The scratchbuilt replica of Fayetteville courthouse, at right, is a signature structure on Joe Gelmini’s N scale Georgia Great Southern Ry. This month registered members can use the image as a computer screen background. Click on the links […]
Click on the links to the left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. Westbound Burlington Northern train No. 171 glides through Feather River Canyon on Jim Pendley’s HO scale Western Pacific layout. This month registered members can use the image as a computer screen background. Click on the links to download […]
Click on the links to the left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. Majestic Hardware, built from a Bar Mills craftsman kit, receives a flatcar on Pat Gerstle’s Sn3 Denver & Rio Grande Western model railroad. This month you can download this photo from Pat’s layout story to use as a […]
