Model Railroad Operations: Hand Signals

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Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Contributing Editor Andy Sperandeo returns to Model Railroader magazine’s HO scale layout to share proper model railroad operating techniques for our cameras. In this MRVP exclusive video, he recruits Cody Grivno to demonstrate how to use hand signals, a topic addressed in Andy’s […]

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Layout Visit: Operating on Tony Koester’s Nickel Plate Road

Operating on Tony Koester's Nickel Plate Road

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Now that you’ve toured his multiple-deck HO scale layout, the Nickel Plate Road St. Louis Division, Tony Koester welcomes you back to glimpse how it operates! In this MR Video Plus exclusive video, viewers get to walk the aisles with Tony and his […]

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John Armstrong’s Aksarben Road audio recordings and online extras

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Model Railroader readers first encountered a track plan designed by John Armstrong in 1952. John became popular, and dozens of his designs were published in magazines and books, earning him the title “dean of track planners.” He died in 2004. John’s style was fully “out of the box” for the time. You might wonder if […]

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Do you know where your boxcar is?

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In the December 2014 Model Railroader, Seth Neumann and Chris Drone wrote an article about using radio-frequency identification (RFID) and a computer to track rolling stock and new possibilities for operation. Prototype railroads have been using scanning technology since the late 1960s. Automatic Car Identification (ACI) used an optical reader and a color-coded plate to […]

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