WalthersMainline HO wide-vision caboose A newly tooled model of a steel International Car Co. extended wide-vision caboose is available from Walthers. Part of the WalthersMainline series, the value-priced model features accurate dimensions and is solidly built, but doesn’t feature all the factory-applied separate detail of a WalthersProto model. For those who wish to add grab […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Take a tour of Gerry Albers’ Virginian Ry. Deepwater District HO scale (1:87) layout that bridges with a section of W. Allen McClelland’s freelanced Virginian & Ohio Railroad. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Take a tour of Gerry Albers’ Virginian Ry. Deepwater District HO scale (1:87) layout that bridges with a section of W. Allen McClelland’s freelanced Virginian & Ohio Railroad. […]
A 104-car BNSF tank train travels around the layout at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. This train’s prototype hauled crude oil from Canadian oil fields to Texas. […]
Check out operations on Thomas Wilson’s Union Railroad, Clairton Coke Works layout. The layout was featured on page 69 in Bernie Kempinski’s book “The Model Railroader Guide to Steel Mills.” Information was taken from Thomas’ late uncle on the operation, who was a Union RR engineer for 38 years in the plant. This is part […]
A 104-car BNSF tank train travels around the layout at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. This train’s prototype hauled crude oil from Canadian oil fields to Texas. […]
Check out operations on Thomas Wilson’s Union Railroad, Clairton Coke Works layout. The layout was featured on page 69 in Bernie Kempinski’s book “The Model Railroader Guide to Steel Mills.” Information was taken from Thomas’ late uncle on the operation, who was a Union RR engineer for 38 years in the plant. This is part […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP7u diesel locomotive. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (blue-and-yellow warbonnet, five road numbers); Bangor & Aroostook (gray, red, and black scheme, four numbers); Cargill (green and white, one number); Integrated Grain & Milling (red, white, and yellow, one number); Morristown & Erie (Bangor & Aroostook patchout and red and black […]
The Design Your City campers stand behind their finished modules at Milwaukee’s Discovery World along with World’s Greatest Hobby president Stacey Walthers Naffah (far right). The campers built model railroad structure kits to represent the businesses, residences, and industries of their HO scale neighborhood. Stacey Walthers-Naffah, president of the World’s Greatest Hobby organization, helps a […]
ScaleTrains.com HO scale General Electric Tier 4 GEVo diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives General Electric Tier 4 GEVo diesel locomotive. Canadian National (with Aboriginal Affairs logo in three road numbers, 100th anniversary scheme with Aboriginal Affairs logo in one number) and Kansas City Southern (Southern Belle scheme in six numbers). Prototype-specific details, directional light-emitting-diode headlights, […]
This materials list is an online bonus to “Build a late-1960s E unit” by Louis Millan from the October 2019 Model Railroader. Louis Millan shows how-to detail an HO scale Life-Like Proto2000 E8 diesel locomotive to represent a late 1960s Penn Central prototype. Below is the materials list for the project. Materials list Cal Scale […]
Atlas Model Railroad Co. HO scale General Motors Diesel Division GP40-2W diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives General Motors Diesel Division GP40-2W diesel locomotive. New paint schemes: Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western; Georgia & Florida Railnet; Hudson Bay Ry. (two road numbers); Iowa Northern; Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority; New England Central (one number); and Vermont Ry. […]
