Name: CSX Miami Downtown Spur Layout designer: Lance Mindheim Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 17 x 21 feet Prototype: CSX Locale: Miami Era: 2007 Style: walk-in Mainline run: 89 feet Minimum radius: 24 inches Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: none Originally appeared in the December 2013 Model Railroader. Click on the link to download the […]
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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This HO scale Norfolk & Western Y6b from Broadway Limited Imports features Digital Command Control, realistic sound, and puffing smoke. The 2-8-8-2 also has pulling power worthy of its prototype. See and hear this HO steam locomotive as it hauls a freight train on the Model Railroader staff’s club layout. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno shows how to adjust wheelset gauge. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno shows how to adjust wheelset gauge. […]
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 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 Get a look at the new SoundTraxx DCC equipped Athearn GP50 in this month’s episode of Cody’s Office. You’ll also see new model train products from Atlas, ExactRail, Piko America, and Walthers. In this month’s modeling tip, Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Get a look at the new SoundTraxx DCC equipped Athearn GP50 in this month’s episode of Cody’s Office. You’ll also see new model train products from Atlas, ExactRail, Piko America, and Walthers. In this month’s modeling tip, Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno […]
