S-Helper Service S gauge SW1 diesel switcher
S-HELPER SERVICE injects new diesel power into the S gauge market with the SW1. By any criterion, the Electro-Motive SW1…
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THE WEAVER division of Quality Craft Models has fielded another terrific O gauge diesel road switcher: The Alco RS-11/RSD-12. Introduced…
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AND NOW FOR something completely different. While I wouldn’t call Ace Trains’ E/1 4-4-4 tank locomotive the Monty Python of…
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IN 1887, a New England railroad added a trailing truck to a common American-type 4-4-0 locomotive to better distribute its…
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I FIRST SAW a photo of a Lionel nuclear reactor years ago in Tuohy and McComas’ book Lionel: A Collector’s…
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SET YOUR WHIMSEY meter on full! The Park Avenue trolley is a nifty tin-lithographed motorized unit that will look right…
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THE NORTH WESTERN’S E-4 class Hudson represents the high water mark of locomotive streamlining. In fact, when Superman’s creator coined…
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OPERATORS OF STANDARD gauge trains, your switch has arrived. Announced in the 1999 MTH catalog, the first mass-produced Standard gauge…
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SHORTLY BEFORE its sale to Great Planes Distributing, United Model Distributors added a terrific trolley car to its Industrial Rail…
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WILLIAMS ELECTRIC TRAINS continues to field unique, detailed locomotives that are, in the words of the retail trade, “priced to…
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YOU’VE HEARD THIS story before. Big, six-axle diesels meet passenger trains and it’s love at first sight. Big, six-axle diesels…
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COAL IS TO LIONEL what ground beef is to McDonald’s. Where the fast food giant transforms its staple product into…
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