Price: $84.98 to $86.98 Manufacturer: Athearn Trains 1600 Forbes Way, Suite 120 Long Beach, CA 90810 www.athearn.com Era: 1950 to present Road names: Burlington Northern; Alaska RR; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Canadian National; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Milwaukee Road; New York Central Comments: Another round of Athearn rotary snowplows is ready to keep HO […]
A new run of HO scale General American 50-foot insulated boxcars is available from Moloco. These ready-to-run cars feature centered 10-foot doors (the previous run had offset doors); separately applied ladders, stirrup steps, and door hardware; and a cushioned underframe. General American, building on the success of its 50-foot insulated boxcars constructed in the 1950s, […]
Trainworx N scale PS 85-foot piggyback flatcar Comments: This N scale 85-foot piggyback car from Trainworx represents one of the early long flatcars that were introduced in the 1960s to haul a pair of 40-foot trailers. Designed for circus-style loading, these cars included drop-down loading ramps at each end so trailers could be backed into […]
Use this image of Bob Stelmach’s S scale Red Pine & Oxville taken by Brooks Stover from the March 2015 Model Railroader as a background on your computer screen. Click on the image size appropriate for your monitor and drag the image onto your desktop. 1600 x 900 wallpaper 1600 x 1000 wallpaper 1600 x […]
Name: Janis Roguskie Railroad Name: Christmas Display 2014 Location: United States Scale: O gauge Theme: Classic holiday display layout Description: The video begins with a slide show showing the initial assembly of the display layout. Some changes were made from last year’s rendering. The next segment of the video captures an operating session on the […]
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Recently Jason Shron of Rapido Trains visited the Model Railroader offices. Jason was kind enough to bring some of Rapido’s new Amtrak F40PH diesels and Canadian mill gondolas. Check out both new products as Jason runs trains with Model Railroader associate editor, Cody Grivno. […]
O gauge nos. 256 locomotive and 700-series cars from Lionel Corp. Tinplate Line (MTH) Price: $499.95 (no. 11-6060-1 New Haven locomotive), $399.95 (no. 11-80047 three-car 710 series passenger set) Features: Locomotive O-31 operation, flywheel-equipped motor, stamped-steel construction, latch couplers, ProtoSound 3.0 sound and command system. Rolling stock O-31 operation, stamped-steel construction, interior illumination, latch couplers […]
O gauge grocery from Woodland Scenics Price: $149 (no. BR5851) Features: Plastic construction; fully assembled, painted and weathered; interior decoration; and inside/outside illumination Most of our readers would have a rock solid memory of a shop they would have dubbed “a corner store” where they grew up. The size might have varied, but one thing […]
Recently Jason Shron of Rapido Trains visited the Model Railroader offices. Jason was kind enough to bring some of Rapido’s new Amtrak F40PH diesels and Canadian mill gondolas. Check out both new products as Jason runs trains with Model Railroader associate editor, Cody Grivno. […]
Name: Mike McLaughlin Forum User Name: Mike McL Railroad Name: Mt. Meterbox & Bare Sands RR Location: United States Scale: 1:29 mostly Theme: eclectic Description: My method of creating concrete mountains. […]
