Walthers HO Pennsylvania RR B60b baggage car will be useful to many

HO PRR B60b baggage car

Price: $34.98 Manufacturer Walthers P.O. Box 3039 Milwaukee, WI 53201 Phone 414-527-0770 www.walthers.com Description Ready-to-run HO scale plastic and metal baggageexpress car Road names Pennsylvania RR (five versions), Long Island RR,Norfolk & Western (N&W class Bej), Penn Central, and undecorated Walthers’ HO scale Pennsylvania RR baggage car is an accurate model of a prototype that […]

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Video: Reading T1-class 4-8-4 in HO

Precision HO scale Reading T1-class 4-8-4

Precision HO scale Reading T1-class 4-8-4 Executive editor Andy Sperandeo reviewed the HO scale “T Hog” in the April issue’s Product Review Extravaganza. Click the icons below to see a video clip of this well-detailed, well-proportioned model steam engine. All videos may take several minutes or more to download depending on your connection speed. […]

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Video: Reading T1-class 4-8-4 in HO

Precision HO scale Reading T1-class 4-8-4

Precision HO scale Reading T1-class 4-8-4 Executive editor Andy Sperandeo reviewed the HO scale “T Hog” in the April issue’s Product Review Extravaganza. Click the icons below to see a video clip of this well-detailed, well-proportioned model steam engine. All videos may take several minutes or more to download depending on your connection speed. […]

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Roundhouse Trains EMD Model 40 is an HO scale workhorse

Roundhouse Trains HO EMD Model 40

Roundhouse Trains HO EMD Model 40 The first time I saw this tiny four-wheel EMD Model 40 switcher, I wondered if a prototype really existed. I soon learned that it’s an industrial switcher. Then the model surprised me by pulling a prototype-size load of 15 free-rolling freight cars, and I was really intrigued. On first […]

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Atlas HO scale roundhouse

Atlas HO scale roundhouse

Atlas HO scale roundhouse I’m sure this new HO roundhouse from Atlas will find a good home on many layouts, as it has that railroady, big roundhouse feel, yet can still fit on a small layout. Roundhouses and their associated turntables are without a doubt among the most “railroady” of structures, and many model railroaders […]

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Bachmann’s HO Climax captures the action of a geared logging locomotive

Bachmann HO Climax

Bachmann HO Climax With whirring rods and driveshafts, the Bachmann 50-ton two-truck class B Climax offers accurate detail and operation. The Spectrum model is based on Greenbrier & Durbin RR no. 3, one of the last survivors of these unique geared steam locomotives. 4 x 4 of the rails. Over a 40-year period, Climax built […]

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Athearn Genesis HO scale F unit diesels now include sound and DCC

Athearn Genesis HO scale F unit diesel

Athearn Genesis HO scale F unit diesel Sound and a dual-mode DCC (Digital Command Control) decoders are the latest additions to Athearn’s models of Electro-Motive Division F units. When this new electronics package is combined with the smooth-running Genesis mechanism, you get a locomotive that’ll pull a prototype-size train and sound like a hard-working EMD […]

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Trix HO N5c cabin car is pure Pennsy

Trix HO N5c cabin car

Trix HO N5c cabin car The new Trix N5c Pennsylvania RR caboose, or “cabin car” in Pennsy parlance, is just as distinctive as any of the Pennsylvania RR’s home-built locomotives. It’s a superb rendition of the prototype, and it comes ready-to-run. Prototype. The N5c cabin car was a refinement of the more numerous N5, introduced […]

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Video: Broadway Limited Imports Museum Series HO scale Great Northern 4-8-4

Model Railroader first gave readers a sneak peek of the HO scale Great Northern steam locomotive in its Trainfest show report in the February 2006 issue. Part of Broadway Limited Imports’ Museum Series, the factory-painted, ready-to-run model has Digital Command Control, QSI Quantum sound system, vestibule cab, and operating headlight. Click the icons below to […]

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Life in the fast lane: Bachmann’s HO Acela HHP8 electric passenger locomotive

Bachmann's HO Acela HHP8

Bachmann’s HO Acela HHP8 A nicely detailed HO model of Amtrak’s ultra-modern Alstom/Bombardier HHP8 has been released in Bachmann’s Spectrum line. The ready-to-run model has terrific pulling power and can operate using conventional track power or – just like its real-world counterpart – it can draw current from an overhead catenary system. Prototype background. Amtrak […]

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HO GG1 from Trix is a Keystone Road Classic electric locomotive

Trix HO GG1

Trix HO GG1 A beautiful ready-to-run model of the Pennsylvania RR’s classic GG1 heavy electric locomotive is available with sound and Digital Command Control from Trix. It has a heavy die-cast-metal body, magnetic knuckle couplers, and comes in two different paint schemes. The Pennsylvania RR (PRR) began to electrify its busiest main lines in the […]

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