Model railroad locomotive, freight car, detail, book, tool, and club announcements for May 13, 2021

Broadway Limited Imports BNSF Ry. Electro-Motive Division SD40-2 diesel locomotive

Product news Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading Model Railroader’s frequent product updates. Here are the products Model Railroader editors have news on for the week of May 13, 2021. HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP40-2 and GP40-2L diesel […]

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DCC Currents: Controlling your Walthers turntable with DCC

Canadian Pacific maroon and gray Royal Hudson sits on Walthers turntable in field of track

By Allan Gartner The Advanced Control Module from Walthers will work with DCC systems capable of controlling accessories, such as turnouts. Your system will need at least one throttle that you can set thrown/closed, on/off, 1/2, or whatever your system calls it, as needed. Systems where the throttle only allows you to toggle from the […]

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Model railroad locomotive, freight car, detail, and tool announcements for May 6, 2021

Athearn Genesis HO scale Buffalo & Pittsburgh Electro-Motive Division SD60M diesel locomotive

Product news Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading Model Railroader’s frequent product updates. Here are the products Model Railroader editors have news on for the week of May 6, 2021. HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD60M and SD60I diesel […]

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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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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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Model railroad locomotive, freight car, structure, train set, and tool announcements for April 22, 2021

Twelve tank cars in different paint schemes

Product news Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading Model Railroader’s frequent product updates. Here are the products Model Railroader editors have news on for the week of April 22, 2021. HO scale locomotives North County Transit District Sprinter articulated […]

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Meet Walthers Open Class Contestant DJ Arlia

A CSX train sits in the middle of a track, the scene is partially covered by a bush

WAUKESHA, Wis. — It’s mid-April and the second-annual Walthers National Model Railroad Build-off is well-underway. Across the country, modelers are hard at work on their layouts. With four different categories and hundreds of contestants, the judges are sure to see no shortage of talent from this year’s submissions. “Open class” contestant Domenic Joseph Arlia, otherwise known […]

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