Kato N scale Viewliner II baggage car

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Kato N scale Viewliner II baggage car If you like to keep up with the cutting edge of rail passenger equipment, Kato has a deal for N scale modelers. Viewliner II baggage cars are now on hobby shop shelves, hot on the heels of their recently delivered prototypes. The prototype: The Viewliner II is the […]

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Kato HO scale Amtrak Superliner II transition sleeper

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Kato HO scale Amtrak Superliner II transition sleeper Price: $90 Manufacturer Kato USA Inc. 100 Remington Rd. Schaumburg, IL 60173 www.katousa.com Era: 2002 to present (as decorated) Road name: Amtrak (Phase 6 [also known as phase 4b] paint scheme). Comments: Kato has released a new run of HO scale Amtrak Superliner II passenger equipment, including […]

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Quick Look: Kato N scale Johnstown American BethGon protein gondola

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Kato N scale Johnstown America BethGon protein gondola Price: Eight-pack, $155 Manufacturer Kato USA Inc. 100 Remington Rd. Schaumburg, IL 60173 www.katousa.com Road names: Wells Fargo Rail Corp. (SBTX reporting marks) and Burlington Northern. Two eight-packs per name. Era: April/May 2009 to present Comments: Bring the modern era to your N scale layout with protein […]

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Modeler’s Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office for April 2018

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Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page A new Amtrak electric in HO, protein gons in N, HO scale covered hopper kits, and an exciting new book highlight the new model railroading products in the April installment of Cody’s Office. Down in the Model Railroader workshop associate editor Cody Grivno […]

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Kato N scale Olympian Hiawatha train

Kato N scale Olympian Hiawatha train set

Kato N scale Olympian Hiawatha train set Hiawatha is the name the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, also known as the Milwaukee Road, used for its first streamlined passenger trains in 1935. By the late 1940s, there were Hiawathas providing fleet passage between many cities of the upper Midwest and the Pacific Northwest. The […]

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Kato N scale Operation North Pole set

Kato N scale Operation North Pole set

Kato N scale Operation North Pole set The basic Operation North Pole set includes the top three cars, the bottom two make up the add-on set. Allstate Arena and Donald E. Stephens are cab cars. The cab cars have switches to turn the headlights and marker lights on or off. Kato F40PH with shell removed […]

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Modeler’s Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office for November 2017

Cody Grivno in his office

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page A “Red Barn” from Bowser Trains and an N scale Olympian Hiawatha from Kato USA are among the new arrivals in this month’s episode of Cody’s Office. Associate editor Cody Grivno will also head down to the Model Railroader workshop to show you […]

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Modeler’s Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office for October 2017

Cody Grivno in his office

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Follow associate editor Cody Grivno down to the Model Railroader staff’s HO scale layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy, as he shows you how to install a Berrett Hill Trains Touch Toggle to control a Tortoise by Circuitron turnout switch machine. Cody will […]

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Video: Kato N scale SDP40F with ESU LokSound

Kato N scale SDP40F with ESU LokSound

This latest version of the N scale Electro-Motive Division SDP40F from Kato USA includes a factory installed ESU LokSound decoder. Check out this demo of the locomotive and the decoder’s realistic Full Throttle diesel sound package in this exclusive video on the Model Railroader staff’s N scale Salt Lake Route model train layout. […]

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