Member video: Cab ride though Per Laursen’s HO scale UP layout

Cab ride though Per Laursen's HO scale UP layout

Cab ride through the layout on Per Laursen’s HO scale modern UP layout based in East-Central Texas. New improved version recorded with a GoPro Hero4 Session camera with much better picture and sound quality. Also the camera is in the correct cab window height for wide-nose locomotives and the train runs at a slower speed […]

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Member video: Cab ride though Per Laursen’s HO scale UP layout

Cab ride though Per Laursen's HO scale UP layout

Cab ride through the layout on Per Laursen’s HO scale modern UP layout based in East-Central Texas. New improved version recorded with a GoPro Hero4 Session camera with much better picture and sound quality. Also the camera is in the correct cab window height for wide-nose locomotives and the train runs at a slower speed […]

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TCA Gulf Coast Chapter, Lone Star Division 2015 winter train meet

Lone Star Division 2015 winter train meet

Name:    Joe Muscanere Railroad Name:    TCA Gulf Coast Chapter Layouts Location:    Houston, Texas Scale:    O, S, Standard Description:    TRAIN COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION LONE STAR DIVISION GULF COAST CHAPTER 2015 WINTER TRAIN MEET O Gauge, S Gauge, and Standard Gauge model trains running at the TCA Lone Star Division Winter Train Meet held January 3, 2015 in […]

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TCA Gulf Coast Chapter, Lone Star Division 2015 winter train meet

Lone Star Division 2015 winter train meet

Name:    Joe Muscanere Railroad Name:    TCA Gulf Coast Chapter Layouts Location:    Houston, Texas Scale:    O, S, Standard Description:    TRAIN COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION LONE STAR DIVISION GULF COAST CHAPTER 2015 WINTER TRAIN MEET O Gauge, S Gauge, and Standard Gauge model trains running at the TCA Lone Star Division Winter Train Meet held January 3, 2015 in […]

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Serving the president of the Katy

TexasSpl2000

The Katy-Frisco Texas Special, a favorite conveyance for the Katy president’s business car, arrives in St. Louis in 1956. Fred Scott My railroad-related career started in 1941, when I was hired as a stenographer by the South-Western Freight Bureau in St. Louis. It was readily accepted for a young man who had studied shorthand and […]

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The electric social train

Crandic 120

The “Crandic” interurban was a safe way for University of Iowa students to travel to and from parties at Cou Falls, 15 miles north of Iowa City. Crandic car 120 is near the Cou Falls station shelter in May 1944. Classic Trains coll. The Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway, universally known by the abbreviation […]

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First train to Tower Grove usually wins

Smoking steam locomotives with passenger train

St. Louis, late 1940s: After a “race” that was not as close as the one author John Mills saw in 1941, MP 4-6-2 5327 rolls the Missourian past a Terminal Railroad Association Baldwin diesel as Frisco 4-8-2 4401 backs the Will Rogers into Union Station. Harold E. Williams What could be more exciting to an 11-year-old […]

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Getting to know Miss Katy

MKT910

In February 1944, Katy 2-8-2 910 rolls into Denton, Texas, with empty tank cars, probably destined for a refill in the Oklahoma oil fields. Frank Rogers During the fall and winter of 1943-44, I was in the Army’s Specialized Training Program at North Texas State Teachers College in Denton, Texas, about 35 miles north of […]

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