Kid-friendly garden railroading
Kid-friendly garden railroading: We all know that garden railroading is a magical hobby, one that we enjoy sharing with other…
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Watch trains steaming through the builder’s depiction of coal operations in Virginia and West Virginia in the 1950s. On this…
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Abandoned routes It can be disheartening to study a railroad atlas and come across abandoned routes. Nobody wants to realize…
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Railroaders, and railfans, are always talking about engines: How many engines were on that train? Don’t those new engines look…
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It’s not hard to give a postwar Lionel GP7 a new lease on life. Unless they’ve really been abused, these…
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Tehachapi: An oasis in the mountains Planning a trip to the Tehachapi Mountains in California? Thinking about watching and photographing…
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Wabtec In the rail world today, Wabtec is viewed as the company that bought General Electric’s locomotive production. This is…
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In this episode, Ben shows how he used NCE Switch-8 devices to control turnouts on the upper staging yard of…
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My first model railroad operating session: One morning each month I join the Old Codgers, a group of mostly retired model…
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N scale layout design tips and considerations: Sometime back I wrote about how prototype railroad equipment has gotten larger over…
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Grade crossing installations take many forms but nearly always include the railroad symbol most familiar to the public — the…
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When N scale modeling doesn’t work out: I hate it when I’m working on some part of my N scale…
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