How to add temporary winter scenery to your layout
Whether it’s a permanent layout or a temporary display, there are a variety of ways to add a touch of…
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Milwaukee Road Hiawatha passenger trains are the long-lasting legacy of a Midwestern railroad plagued with underperformance and mismanagement — right…
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Some photographs grab your imagination and won’t let go. Case in point: this simple but quietly affecting portrait…
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Climax Class A logging locomotive As steam locomotives go, logging engines aren’t the most attractive specimens out there. They’re the…
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Aerial photography Digital photography is constantly improving, and these advancements are empowering photographers to push the boundaries and explore new…
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Resin kits are a practical solution when a particular car or structure isn’t available as a mass-produced item. But unlike…
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Work on the HO scale Milwaukee, Racine & Troy (MR&T) Jones Island project has come to a close, so it’s…
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Dirt the railroad cat Within a few hours of announcing Dirt’s death to the public in a Facebook post on…
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Control cars Always looking for more effective ways to be a railroad, Union Pacific in the early 2000s experimented with…
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Rail photography with Google Earth 3D: Anyone who has been exposed to the internet has undoubtedly found themselves snooping around…
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Portland day-trip rail experience: In the coastal Pacific Northwest, a Portland day-trip rail experience is easy enough that you can…
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Five extreme snow railroading facts Five extreme snow railroading facts belie the fact that snow can be pretty. It’s the…
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