Name: Milwaukee Road 14th Subdivision Layout designer: Bowen Tubbs Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 12′-0″ x 16′-6″ Prototype: Milwaukee Road or Seattle & North Coast RR Locale: Olympic Peninsula, Washington State Era: 1970s to 1984 Style: around the walls with divided peninsula Mainline run: 60 feet Minimum radius: 24″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 1 […]
Name: Spokane International Ry. Layout designer: Mike Pagano Scale: N (1:160) Size: 6 x 13 feet Prototype: Spokane International Ry., Northern Pacific, and Great Northern Locale: Northern Idaho Era: 1954 to 1962 Style: Sectional island Mainline run: 78 feet Minimum radius: 12-1⁄2″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum grade: 3 percent (main), 4 percent (logging branch) […]
St. Croix train sheet Train dispatching under timetable- and-train-order authority is partly a science and partly an art, and it takes a certain amount of knowledge and experience to do it well. When you first want to try your hand, though, just the mechanics of dealing with train sheets and order books can seem like […]
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Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno shows how to weather a freight car with the drybrushing technique. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Dirty track can take all the fun out of model railroading. Kent Johnson shows you how easy it is to shine up the rails and keep your trains rolling smoothly in this video. […]
Drop-in decoders make installing DCC in N scale locomotives about as easy as it gets. In this video David shows you how to install a TCS K4D6 decoder and K4LK lighting module in an N scale Kato MP36PH diesel locomotive. […]
Name: Chesapeake & Ohio Hinton Division Layout designer: Jim EuDaly Scale: O (1:48) Size: 35 x 50-feet, with 9 x 12-foot dispatcher’s office Prototype: C&O New River and Alleghany Subdivisions Locale: southern West Virginia Era: 1948-1952 Style: Three-deck walkaround Mainline run: 775 feet Minimum radius: 60″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 3 percent (westbound) […]
Name: Virginian & Ohio RR. K&M Subdivision Layout designer: W. Allen McClelland Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 7 x 38 feet plus a 32 foot extension of the main line (east) to hidden staging Prototype: freelanced Locale: southern West Virginia Period: summer 1959 Style: walkaround Mainline run: 120 feet Minimum radius: 32″ (main), 28″ (yard) Minimum […]
Name: Katy Kansas City Subdivision Layout designer: Mike McLain Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 26 x 56 feet Prototype: M-K-T, Northern Division Locale: Kansas City to Parsons, Kan. Period: 1981 Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 220 feet Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2 percent Originally appeared in the Great Model Railroads 2014. […]
Name: Lehigh & Susquehanna Layout designer: Wayne Sittner Scale: HO (1:87:1) Size: 9 x 41 feet Prototypes: Central of New Jersey; Delaware & Hudson; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; Erie; Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley; Lehigh Valley; and Pennsylvania Locale: Northeastern Pennsylvania anthracite coal mining and cement-making regions Era: 1952-62 or 1978-85 Style: linear walkaround shelf Mainline […]
Name: Oregon Coast RR Layout designer: Mat Thompson Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 32′-0″ x 54′-6″ Prototype: freelanced Locale: Pacific Northwest Era: fall 1953 Style: walk-in Mainline run: 120 feet Minimum radius: 30″ (main), 24″ (branch) Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main), no. 4 (industries and yards) Maximum grade: 2.5 percent Originally appeared in the Great Model […]
