Rock star Rod Stewart visits George Sellios’ legendary model railroad

Both Rod Stewart and George Sellios’ have had their model train layouts featured in Model Railroader magazine. The two model railroaders finally got to meet when the rock start visited Sellios’ HO scale Franklin & South Manchester in Peabody, Mass. Read this article about the visit from The Salem News.  A local television station in […]

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Starter set expansion plans (FasTrack)

Starter set expansion plans (Lionel O gauge tubular track)

  Layout designer: Kent Johnson Scale: O Layout size: 5 x 8 feet Track type: Lionel FasTrack Minimum curve: O-36 Originally appeared in the December 2013 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Starter set expansion plans (FasTrack) components Starter set expansion plans (FasTrack) […]

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Starter set expansion plans (Lionel O gauge tubular track)

Starter set expansion plans (Lionel O gauge tubular track)

Layout designer: Kent Johnson Scale: O Layout size: 5 x 8 feet Track type: Lionel O gauge tubular Minimum curve: O-31 Originally appeared in the December 2013 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Starter set expansion plans (Lionel O gauge tubular track) […]

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Winter on the Zavoronki Railroad

Winter on the Zavoronki Railroad

Name:  Ilya Krishtal Railroad Name:  Zavoronki Railroad Location: Russia, Zavoronki village Scale: 1:22.5 Theme: First winter day run! Description:    I installed special equipment in my Baldwin Forney 2-4-4 steam locomotive. Now I can run this locomotive on battery power with radio control even in winter! Russian winters are always very cold and snowy and this […]

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Roselle to Jersey City: A farewell

CNJ1524

CNJ GP7 1524 brings a Jersey City-bound commuter train into Roselle station on April 27, 1967, not long before the Aldene Plan diverted such trains to Newark’s Penn Station. John A. Yohannan A major change was about to take place in 1967 on the Jersey Central passenger service to Jersey City, N.J. From its humble beginnings […]

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Member video: Silicon Valley Free-moN layouts

Silicon Valley Free-moN layouts

Follow freight, passenger, and POV trains along Silicon Valley Free-moN’s layout at the Great Train Expo in Pleasanton, California. Modular layouts like Free-moN allow multiple members to run massive trains over many scale-miles of track (much more possible than at home!) while socializing and “suckering” newbies into the wonderful world of Model Railroading. Video shot […]

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Member video: Silicon Valley Free-moN layouts

Silicon Valley Free-moN layouts

Follow freight, passenger, and POV trains along Silicon Valley Free-moN’s layout at the Great Train Expo in Pleasanton, California. Modular layouts like Free-moN allow multiple members to run massive trains over many scale-miles of track (much more possible than at home!) while socializing and “suckering” newbies into the wonderful world of Model Railroading. Video shot […]

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