Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Sutter’s Mill

A model train passes a collection of structures on a model railroad layout

While a few employees from Sutter’s Mill enjoy their mid-afternoon break outside, New York, New Haven & Hartford RS1 No. 0663 is hard at work pulling a string of boxcars. The scene is on Marshall Sommer’s HO scale Rhode Haven RR in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Lou Sassi took the photo. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the […]

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Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Manifest freight through Hainesburg

A red diesel locomotive leads a freight train past a town on a model railroad layout

New York, Kittatinny & Western Alco RS32 No. 2032 rolls through Hainesburg, N.J., with a manifest freight. In the background, another Alco switches the local industries. The action, photographed by Bernard Kempinski, takes place on Bernie Halloran’s freelanced HO scale layout, featured in the October 2006 issue of Model Railroader. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the […]

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Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Blue Mountain Road

A consist of three yellow model locomotives leads a freight train through a mountainous setting on a model railroad layout

Three Krauss-Maffei ML-4000 diesel-hydraulic locomotives lead an eastbound train over Blue Mountain Road on Mike Danneman’s N scale Denver & Rio Grande Western. Mike, who lives in Arvada, Colo., also took the photo. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating decades of model railroad heritage and excellence. […]

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Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Hitch’s Garage

A gas station with a sign that reads "Hitch's Garage" on a model railroad layout with a train passing behind the gas station

As the mechanic at Hitch’s Garage tends to a disabled car, an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe NW2 rumbles past with a switch run. Jay Miller took the photo on Chuck Hitchcock’s HO scale Argentine Industrial District. You can read more about Chuck’s layout in the February 2007 issue of Model Railroader magazine. Model Railroader‘s […]

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Visiting Jim Kelly’s Tehachapi Pass layout

Diesels in the middle of a N scale freight train

Retired Model Railroader Managing Editor Jim Kelly remains active in honing his N scale skills and craftsmanship. The result has been the fourth incarnation of his Tehachapi Pass layout. Set in 1985, both the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and Southern Pacific traverse the 2% grade between Bakersfield and Tehachapi, Calif., with the famous Tehachapi […]

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Model Railroader Photo of the Day: A first-prize scratchbuilt locomotive

A scratchbuilt model steam locomotive

Between 1961 and 1963, author John Pryke spent 1,500 hours scratchbuilding this New Haven class R-3a 4-8-2 steam locomotive. The model won first prize at the 1964 National Model Railroad Association model contest. Carl Nelson photo Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating decades of model railroad heritage and excellence. […]

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Model Railroader Photo of the Day: The sand trap

Ken Kirkwood sent in this photo of an unfortunate golfer who hit her ball into a really big sand trap. Ken, of Yucaipa, Calif., took the photo on his freelanced Ma  & Pa K layout.  Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating decades of model railroad heritage and excellence. […]

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Model Railroader Photo of the Day: On the ready track

A model figure stands on a steam locomotive tender on a model railroad layout

​​The Lower Paxton & Northern engine terminal is a bustling place this morning. With two locomotives on the ready tracks, the hostler is set to fill the tender of the third engine with water. Bob Santos of Harrisburg, Pa., photographed the action on his indoor 1:24-proportion large scale layout.  Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day […]

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