Selecting N scale track
Q: I will be starting my first model railroad soon, a small N scale layout. I want to use code…
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Q: I would like to know where to buy double-shelf couplers for HO scale tank cars. — Joseph Kuepfer A:…
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Q: I recently ordered one of the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy N scale bay-window cabooses from Shop.Trains.com. What does the…
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Early last spring, it was time to plan a summer vacation and get to some unfinished business. Alison and I…
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Q: How do mechanical passenger car washers work? — Steve Moore A: Keeping passenger cars clean is a never-ending battle…
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Q: I’m planning a rail-served brewery for my N scale layout. What did these industries look like, and what kind…
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A lot of diligent photographers were scattered along the old Wabash main line in Indiana and Illinois this past weekend…
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Q: When did the grade crossing whistle signal change from two longs and two shorts (— — o o) to…
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Q: Do the passenger cars in mixed trains go in front of the freight cars, or vice versa? — Stanley…
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Q: Did short line railroads use timetables for such loads as logs, lumber, cattle, grain, merchandise, and the like for…
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Q: I am modeling the Milwaukee Road’s Beer Line in HO scale. Which trains worked the Beer Line, and what…
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Q: I’d like to know how trains turn around at the end of a branch line in the caboose era.…
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