An engineer’s life: Christmas calendar
I used to get a bit of grief when I was a new hire from co-workers for being a railfan.…
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Santa Fe All the Way display in HO scale | Trains.com Contributor Gerry Leone visits with layout owner/building Andrew Bobis…
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Gotthard Panorama Express It’s hard to imagine that a Swiss train ride through a spectacular and historic mountain pass can…
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As railroad fans, we are in one form or another, closet historians. “The station used to be right there. You…
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Years ago, it was not unknown for railroads to promote themselves via railroad models. This actually began in the…
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Burlington Route history begins with the Aurora Branch Railroad, chartered on Feb. 12, 1849, to build a line from Aurora,…
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My worst nightmare-come-true as a railroader was waking up Christmas morning in a lonely hotel room, hundreds of miles away…
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Trains.com staff set out to prove they could build out a layout one square foot at a time! Now that…
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Q: I recall an article from a few years back that was about setting up a minimalist layout set on…
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24th Mechanized Infantry Division The first sergeant’s voice boomed out over the formation: “I’m looking for eight volunteers. I need…
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In the January 2025 issue of Model Railroader magazine, Contributing Editor Lou Sassi paid a visit to the Youngstown Model…
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Compared to the likes of the Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Western Pacific Railroad can be…
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