Computer desktop wallpaper from the April 2017 Model Railroader

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Click on the links at left to download the image sized appropriately for your computer screen. Bill Zuback photo A crowd gathers at the Williams Bay train station to celebrate 1,000 issues of Model Railroader magazine. This online exclusive photo was taken on the Model Railroader staff’s HO scale Milwaukee, Racine & Troy layout. Click […]

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New desktop wallpaper from the March 2017 Model Railroader

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Click on the links at left to download the image sized appropriately for your computer screen. Great Northern S-1 no. 2551 has coupled onto its train and is ready to depart Everett, Wash., on Lee Marsh’s HO scale model railroad. Lee’s trackside photo is featured in the March 2017 Model Railroader. This month you can […]

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Computer desktop wallpaper from the February 2017 Model Railroader

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Click on the links at left to download the image. Eric Brooman In this trackside photo from the February 2017 Model Railroader,  a Norfolk Southern SD70ACU sits in a Utah Belt RR engine terminal. The NS has a run-through agreement on Eric Brooman’s HO scale railroad that’s always set in the present day. Click on […]

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Computer desktop wallpaper from the January 2017 Model Railroader

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Click on the links at left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4-8-4 pulls a manifest freight over the mountains on Les Illes’ HO scale Santa Fe Eastern, a freelanced model railroad set in the American Southwest. Click on the links below to download the […]

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Bonus computer desktop wallpaper from the December 2016 Model Railroader

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Click on the links to the left to download the image sized appropriately for your computer screen. Snow has melted along the right-of-way, making roads muddy, on this bright April day in Maine as Forney engine no. 9, with Ed West at the throttle, passes South Strong station. Lou Sassi, a frequent contributor to Model […]

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Bonus computer desktop wallpaper from Great Model Railroads 2017

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Don’t miss the 10 inspiring layouts featured in Great Model Railroads 2017. This special issue of Model Railroader magazine features a wide variety of model train layouts in N, HO, and O scales. As a special online bonus, you can download computer desktop wallpaper from each of the featured layouts. Want to see more of […]

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Computer desktop wallpaper from the October 2016 Model Railroader

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Click on the links to the left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. Bona Vista RR Consolidation no. 28 belches smoke as it heads upgrade on frequent Model Railroader contributor Gerry Leone’s new HO scale Bona Vista RR, currently under construction. Click on the links below to download the appropriate image […]

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Computer desktop wallpaper from the September 2016 Model Railroader

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Click on the links to the left to download the appropriately sized image for your computer screen. High on the Mousebelly Branch of the 3-foot-gauge Devil’s Gulch & Helengon RR, engineer “Wild Bill” McFlannel guides his train of silver ore. Ron Foreman took this trackside photo on his HOn3 diorama. Click on the links to […]

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Computer desktop wallpaper from the August 2016 Model Railroader

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Click on the links to the left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. The in-plant switcher pulls a cut of hot-metal cars from the basic oxygen furnace past empty slag cars sitting next to the blast furnace. The steel industry is the focus of the latest phase of Rick Crumrine’s HO […]

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Computer desktop wallpaper from the July 2016 Model Railroader

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Click on the links to the left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. The Mosquito Creek Lumber Co.’s lone Climax locomotive leads the “Clean-Up Train” across a low bridge over the algae-covered swamps of Louisiana. Joseph Kreiss of Fairmont, Minn., whose HO scale Big Island Rail layout was featured in the […]

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Computer desktop wallpaper from the June 2016 Model Railroader

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Click on the links to the left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. The stationmaster at Maple Valley flags down the Red Arrow for a passenger stop on Greg Rich’s HO scale New Baltimore & Fair Haven Ry. Greg detailed and painted 4-4-0 no. 44, a Bachmann model. The station was […]

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Computer desktop wallpaper from the May 2016 Model Railroader

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Click on the links to the left to download the image size appropriate for your computer screen. The scratchbuilt replica of Fayetteville courthouse, at right, is a signature structure on Joe Gelmini’s N scale Georgia Great Southern Ry. This month registered members can use the image as a computer screen background. Click on the links […]

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