Microsoft Train Simulator
I REMARKED OVER dinner one night “Driving a train is really hard work!” I waited for the guffaws to die…
Read moreI REMARKED OVER dinner one night “Driving a train is really hard work!” I waited for the guffaws to die…
Read moreTHE MILWAUKEE ROAD bipolar electric left an indelible imprint on the toy train world. The body style was quite popular…
Read moreTODAY, UNION PACIFIC’S articulated M-10000 train is quaint, in an odd but wondrous, Buck Rogers sort of way. But in…
Read moreTHE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD had two major challenges: The Allegheny Mountains and a primary commodity of coal. This double-whammy resulted in…
Read moreSOME OF THE slickest-looking steam locomotives were the streamlined Atlantics and Hudsons that served the Milwaukee Road’s speedy Hiawatha passenger…
Read moreARE WE IN THE midst of a revival of the trolley car on tinplate layouts, or what? For years we’ve…
Read moreGETTING BACK INTO the hobby in the early 1990s, one of the engines that impressed me most was the postwar…
Read moreHOW OFTEN I CAN remember the late Frank Pettit complaining about how quickly Lionel had pulled the plug on what…
Read moreTHERE ARE PLENTY of great-looking steamers on the market. Walk into any hobby shop and you’ll see row after row…
Read moreMTH IS OFFERING two starter sets that get away from the typical “seen-it-all-before” consists common in the field: the Alaska…
Read moreMY OFFICE WAS hotter than a jail cell in on the wrong side of the border. I sat in the…
Read moreS GAUGE ENTHUSIASTS who have a fancy for passenger trains will want to take note of the release of Budd…
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