A (sort of) successful move
A (sort of) successful move: Back in 1995, I wrote a story for the first issue of Model Railroad Planning…
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Grade crossing for a garden railway: I founded the Motorcycle and Model Railroad Museum of Wisconsin, a non-profit corporation that…
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Improve ready-to-run freight cars: A few weeks ago I bought an N scale freight car at my local hobby shop.…
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If you’ve ever tried to run a big locomotive around a small radius curve of track, you probably realized that…
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A signature N scale truck for Tehachapi: This photo of a cattle truck at Caliente, Calif., existed in my mind…
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N scale by the numbers: Scale model railroading couldn’t exist without numbers, some that are very important and some that…
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Improving N scale engine performance: One of the most puzzling N scale locomotive performance problems I’ve encountered came with the…
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Modelers often compress industries to fit more of them on our model railroads. But doing the opposite – expanding a…
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It’s been more than a decade since Lou Sassi photographed my HO scale White River Division for a feature in…
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Q: I’m building a new layout using Kato HO scale Unitrack. I have read many different opinions on whether to…
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Choosing model rail sizes is one of the things modelers often spend time on when building their second layout.…
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Three types of staging yards: Staging serves the role of representing a model railroad’s connections to the rest of the…
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