N scale trains on HO curves
N scale trains on HO curves: In 1968 Aurora and Revell gambled that N scale train sets would be a…
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In April 1943, Burlington Route 4-6-4 No. 4000 enters Chicago Union Station with Great Northern’s Empire Builder, which has used…
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Better track, wheels, and couplers: Several years ago Atlas introduced its code 55 N scale track, and soon a great…
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Wheel quality keeps rolling: Over the last five years or so, N scalers have shown increased interest in replacement wheelsets.…
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The Skytop sleeper-observation car of Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha bangs across the C&NW diamonds in a 1952 view from the…
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Sidewinders, squeezers, and crushers: In Milwaukee, our winter days can be very cold and dry, our summer days hot and…
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General Electric’s B23-7 GE’s best-selling four-axle unit still hauls freight today. General Electric, now Wabtec, has been out of the…
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Launched in 1929, the Jersey City-Atlantic City Blue Comet was the pride of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, as…
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Test twice, solder once: It’s one of the best lessons I’ve learned in building layouts. In fact, it’s such a…
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The 1938 Broadway Limited‘s mid-train lounge cars, Harbor Point and Harbor Springs, contained two double bedrooms, a barber shop, a…
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Late in her life, New York Central 4-6-4 5403 races west from Mattoon, Ill., with nameless mail and express train…
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Santa Fe 4-8-2 3746 roars up the Surf Line between Oceanside and Carlsbad, Calif., with a troop train on July…
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