Railroad’s traffic control systems
Traffic control systems Running a safe operation is not as simple as you might think. Every train must have authority…
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Because shippers’ distribution patterns are rarely congruent with any one rail carrier, railroads have developed two traditional methods of extending…
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A two-lane road takes traffic through town on the author’s railway. Roads constructed by this method are durable, permanent, and…
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This railtruck is constructed primarily out of old tin cans. Here it awaits its driver for a trip down the…
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Scrap wood, like that pictured here, is readily available and free for the asking. Rene Schweitzer Trestles! Bridges! Cribbing! Wooden…
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Soldering tools. Top row: mini torch; 40/60 rosin-core solder; liquid flux. Bottom row: heavy-duty pliers to align rails while the…
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Jack Verducci shows you how to make durable, outdoor rock formations from a mixture he calls “gulapata.” Download the 1997…
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Download this free trackplan that accompanies our Tuscarora project railroad series. In the June 2006 issue: Determining a trackplan, surveying…
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The No. 24 was the last locomotive supplied to the two-foot gauge Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad in Maine.…
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Lillian “Curly” Lawrence and the history of live-steam locomotives Lillian “Curly” Lawrence was a British model engineer who lived from…
Read moreThe No. 24 was the last locomotive supplied to the two-foot gauge Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad in Maine.…
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A Roundhouse “Fowler,” fitted with a coal-fired boiler by John Shawe, at work on the author’s garden railway near Toronto.…
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