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Q: Reading Jerry Dziedzic’s essay on “Turning waybills into dollar bills” (August 2023) made me realize that I don’t know…
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Q: Reading Jerry Dziedzic’s essay on “Turning waybills into dollar bills” (August 2023) made me realize that I don’t know…
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To mark the 50th anniversary of Ntrak, I thought I’d take a look at the Ntrak modular standard and sketch…
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To our younger readers, HO scale locomotives with smoke units may seem like a recent development. In reality, the feature…
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Digital Command Control, or DCC, is one of two ways most modelers control their trains. Instead of sending current directly…
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If you have LEGO trains, you probably have LEGO train track. Different kinds of LEGO train track have appeared in…
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Q: I’m planning a small layout based on The Bay Line (BAYL), a north Florida short line, focusing on the…
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Q: I’ve been given several HO scale locomotives that unfortunately came without boxes or information about whether they were DCC…
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Q: I’m planning to model the Hoboken, N.J., and Brick Church, N.J., stations on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the…
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Although small, couplers play a big role in smooth, reliable operation. If couplers function properly and are installed per the…
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Q: I have a Walthers gas plant kit (item 933-3104) and gas storage tank kit (item 933-2907). I want to…
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When I got into model railroading as a kid in the 1980s, factory-decorated HO scale freight car kits were the…
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Q: I am researching transition era railcar brakes. Were there books written on the subject, and are they still available…
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