Microsoft Train Simulator
I REMARKED OVER dinner one night “Driving a train is really hard work!” I waited for the guffaws to die…
Read moreI REMARKED OVER dinner one night “Driving a train is really hard work!” I waited for the guffaws to die…
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THE MILWAUKEE ROAD bipolar electric left an indelible imprint on the toy train world. The body style was quite popular…
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TODAY, UNION PACIFIC’S articulated M-10000 train is quaint, in an odd but wondrous, Buck Rogers sort of way. But in…
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THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD had two major challenges: The Allegheny Mountains and a primary commodity of coal. This double-whammy resulted in…
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SOME OF THE slickest-looking steam locomotives were the streamlined Atlantics and Hudsons that served the Milwaukee Road’s speedy Hiawatha passenger…
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ARE WE IN THE midst of a revival of the trolley car on tinplate layouts, or what? For years we’ve…
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GETTING BACK INTO the hobby in the early 1990s, one of the engines that impressed me most was the postwar…
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HOW OFTEN I CAN remember the late Frank Pettit complaining about how quickly Lionel had pulled the plug on what…
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THERE ARE PLENTY of great-looking steamers on the market. Walk into any hobby shop and you’ll see row after row…
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MTH IS OFFERING two starter sets that get away from the typical “seen-it-all-before” consists common in the field: the Alaska…
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MY OFFICE WAS hotter than a jail cell in on the wrong side of the border. I sat in the…
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S GAUGE ENTHUSIASTS who have a fancy for passenger trains will want to take note of the release of Budd…
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