Model Rectifier Corp. Digital Command Control starter set For modelers interested in an easy way to try Digital Command Control (DCC) without committing to a full- featured system, Model Rectifier Corp. offers the Prodigy Explorer. This no-frills DCC system makes it easy to get a taste for DCC operation and decoder programming. Using other Prodigy […]
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See this photo gallery of streamlined locomotives that dazzled crowds at the North Carolina Transportation Museum complex in Spencer, N.C., in Summer 2014. This is a modified version of the photo gallery that first appeared on Classic Trains‘ website. […]
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Bachmann Industries HO sale Norfolk Southern fleet diesel locomotives It seems model railroaders can’t get enough of the Norfolk Southern heritage fleet. Dressed in the paint schemes of fallen flag railroads, newly tooled HO scale General Electric ES44AC and Electro-Motive Diesel SD70ACe locomotives are now available in the Bachmann Trains Sound Value series. The accurately […]
A Herzog contract work train on the BNSF Railway at Winslow, Ariz., on July 5, 2013. Photo by Michael T. Burkhart […]
You squint through the train window to read the signs on parallel highway 148. They’re in French and English. It dawns on you that your ride in a Budd Rail Diesel Car from Ottawa to Montreal is about the most inauspicious way to begin a trip around the world. But no matter. It’s February 1974, […]
The hybrid sequence lists John Pryke uses on his HO scale New Haven Cape Cod branch specify the switching work to be done and provide authority for trains to move between stations. Here the Boston yard operator is placing outbound waybills and the train’s sequence list into the train pouch. Most modelers build their first […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division FP7 diesel locomotive. New paint schemes: Atlantic Coast Line (black and yellow), Penn Central (black with red “P” on single unit, black with white “P” on two-packs), and Rock Island (maroon with yellow nose). Road-number-specific details, Blomberg B trucks, and etched-metal windshield wipers. Single FP7 (one road number): direct-current model, […]
Too many sound-equipped locomotives in one place, like those shown here on the MR&T, can spell trouble for a DCC layout. Paul Dolkos takes you through the steps he used to set up power districts on his HO model railroad. Imagine you’ve just begun running trains on a layout equipped for Digital Command Control (DCC) […]
New crude oil tank cars roll west on Canadian Pacific rails through Duplainville, Wis., on Jan. 12, 2014. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Locomotives and rail cars are lined up on display at the 2014 National Train Day exhibit in Toledo, Ohio, on May 3. Photo by Joe Kohnen […]
