Cody Grivno answers the question with resources for finding railroad radio frequencies. You want to know more about railroad communications or you have questions about your model railroad? Send us an email: AskTrains@trains.com, and if you have other resources for finding railroad radio frequencies, please leave them in the comments field below. […]
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On Chicago’s ‘L’

A four-car Chicago Aurora & Elgin train heads away from the Loop as a Chicago Rapid Transit train heads inbound. Below the train are the south platforms of Chicago Union Station. Don Sims photo […]
What is the thickness of the tempered hardboard used on the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy N scale state line route layout?

Cody Grivno explains the thickness and intricacies of working with the tempered hardboard. Do you have questions about the products that we use for magazine articles or for videos, or do you want to learn more about full size trains? Send us an email: AskTrains@trains.com […]
What is the thickness of the tempered hardboard used on the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy N scale state line route layout?

Cody Grivno explains the thickness and intricacies of working with the tempered hardboard. Do you have questions about the products that we use for magazine articles or for videos, or do you want to learn more about full size trains? Send us an email: AskTrains@trains.com […]
Northbound along Howe Sound

Two GE 70-tonners lead Pacific Great Eastern’s daily passenger train north from Squamish, B.C., in about 1950, several years before the line was extended down to North Vancouver and Rail Diesel Cars replaced the secondhand stock seen here. Linn H. Westcott photo […]
NKP 759 in Virginia

High Iron Company’s Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 759 thunders down the Norfolk & Western main line with an excursion train at Natural Bridge, Va., in November 1968. Don Wood photo […]
L&N SD35s and RS3s

Two EMD SD35s and two Alco RS3s lead a freight at Emerling, just west of Loyall in southeast Kentucky in 1968. Ron Flanary photo […]
Indiana interurban

Indiana Railroad RPO-coach 375 stands under the big trainshed at the Indianapolis interurban terminal in the late 1930s, a few years before IRR ended service. W. B. Cox coll. […]
Humping at Enola Yard

A boxcar rolls though a retarder in the Pennsylvania’s vast Enola Yard near Harrisburg, Pa., in the early 1950s. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Where do you find specific prototype drawings again?

Cody Grivno answers another request regarding prototype drawings and how to locate them. There is an online archive to access older Model Railroader issues. Hard copies may be harder to come by. Do you need help tracking down an old drawing in MR? Or, are you looking for information on prototype trains? Send us an […]
Where do you find specific prototype drawings again?

Cody Grivno answers another request regarding prototype drawings and how to locate them. There is an online archive to access older Model Railroader issues. Hard copies may be harder to come by. Do you need help tracking down an old drawing in MR? Or, are you looking for information on prototype trains? Send us an […]
East Broad Top’s Mount Union Yard

Railfans mill around the East Broad Top’s dual-gauge yard at Mount Union, Pa., as Mikado No. 14 waits with their excursion train in the 1950s. The “Timber Transfer” overhead crane was used to lift standard-gauge cars so their trucks could be changed for passage over the EBT. Charles Small photo […]