A custom-decorated covered hopper and gondola, new road numbers on a locomotive, a modeling tip, and viewer mail!

Cody Grivno sitting with locomotives on the table in front of him

Learn about the new HO scale Milwaukee, Racine & Troy 4750 covered hopper from the Kalmbach Hobby Store, Atlas Model Railroad Co.’s HO scale Dash 8-40B diesel locomotive in new road numbers, and the New England Steam Corp.’s custom-decorated HO scale Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England 52’-6” gondola. In addition, there’s viewer mail and a […]

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A new book, an updated caboose, and new well cars with containers, plus a tip and viewer mail!

Cody Grivno holds Guide to Signals & Interlockings book, with a silver HO scale caboose with red stripe in front of the book, and a line of N scale Gunderson Maxi-I container cars with containers in front of that

Learn about Kalmbach Books’ new Guide to Signals & Interlockings, Bachmann’s updated HO scale CB&Q offset caboose, Kato’s new N scale Gunderson Maxi-I five-unit articulated well car with containers, a modeling tip, and viewer mail in the new episode of Cody’s Office! […]

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New paint on GP38-2s and 50-foot double-door boxcars, and all-new N scale containers!

Cody Grivno in Model Railroader workshop with Atlas GP38-2, Accurail 50-foot boxcar, JRT Model Trains 53-foot container

Cody’s back in the office with new paint schemes for the Atlas HO scale GP38-2, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy double-door 50-foot boxcar from Accurail, and all-new 53-foot corrugated containers from JTC Model Trains, a modeling tip, and viewer mail. […]

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RailSmith Models N scale lightweight coach, ScaleTrains.com SD45, new Tony Koester book, and more!

Cody Grivno holds Tony Koester’s new book, Applying Lessons from the Prototype, with green and black Burlington Northern ScaleTrains.com HO scale EMD SD45 in front of book, RailSmith Models N scale Big Sky Blue Great Northern lightweight coach in front of SD45

Cody shares the new RailSmith Models N scale Great Northern lightweight coach, ScaleTrains.com’s HO scale EMD SD45, Tony Koester’s new book from Kalmbach Media, Applying Lessons from the Prototype, a modeling tip and viewer mail. […]

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Operating the N scale Bachmann 4-6-4 Hudson with sound; SD80MAC; iron ore book review

Man holding book at table with model trains.

In this installment, Cody test-runs Bachmann’s new sound-equipped N scale New York Central 4-6-4 Hudson, as well as Athearn’s Genesis 2.0 HO scale SD80MAC. He also looks at Jeff Wilson’s latest book, The Model Railroader’s Guide to Iron Ore Railroads. In addition, Cody shares tips about using Rails Unlimited reproduction railroad industry directories to improve […]

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