Get your toy trains ready for the holidays
Get your toy trains ready for the holidays While cleaning out my parents’ attic I found my old trains. Even…
Read moreGet your toy trains ready for the holidays While cleaning out my parents’ attic I found my old trains. Even…
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Do you need to camouflage full-size items near your railway? Even though the 12 x 43 feet space in my…
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In the spring of 1936, industrial design guru Raymond Loewy came up with a streamlined winner for the Pennsylvania Railroad’s…
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In 1938, toy maker A.C. Gilbert purchased the American Flyer Manufacturing Co. Production was moved from Chicago to Connecticut (Gilbert…
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Four years after the Budd Co.’s Rail Diesel Car made its debut in 1949, Auburn Model Trains announced the first…
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Jools Holland and his railway empire Like many of you, my interest in model railways started as a young boy.…
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I scratchbuilt a large-scale grain elevator in 1:29 scale using PVC pipes, PVC boards, and styrene. To make the…
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Prototype locomotives and freight cars have body-mounted couplers, but that hasn’t always been the case on N scale models. Truck-mounted…
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I must have been 11 or 12 years old when I saw Lionel´s 1938 catalog. I turned to page 16…
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An N scale layout on a door is to that scale what a 4 x 8-foot table is to HO:…
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What is ground foam for model railroad layouts? When I first came across this phrase, I thought it was foam…
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Digital Command Control terms you should know: Those of you new to Digital Command Control (DCC), and even those who…
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