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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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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Video: HO scale Union Pacific stack train through central Texas

Yellow model Union Pacific locomotives lead a freight train through a low-density urban commercial corridor.

Union Pacific stack train with DPU running through the finished part (about 1/3) of Per Laursen’s modern HO scale model railroad. The model train layout theme is UP with BNSF trackage rights in east-central Texas. The main city of Waycross is fictional but the other towns Gladewater, Livingston, and LaGrange are made to resemble the […]

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Member video: Pulling empties on the HO scale Iowa Interstate

Pulling empties on the HO scale Iowa Interstate

Follow Train DMSW-08 as it pulls two empties from Beisser Lumber in Grimes on the Iowa Interstate’s Grimes Industrial Track. James McNab shot this video on his HO scale Iowa Interstate model railroad. See more of this modern-era model railroad, including a track plan, in Model Railroad Planning 2014! […]

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Karl Bond’s HO scale Mantua 0-4-0 with a new motor and DCC sound

0-4-0 model steam locomotive shown in a rail yard.

A Mantua 0-4-0 is the test bed here. I’ve replaced the original open-frame motor with a can motor. I then added a Micro Tsunami and a KA2 module from TCS. No modifications were done concerning electrical pickup. It still only picks up current on the right from the engine’s two wheels, and the four left […]

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