Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 17 – Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Freight train winds through wide open prairie.

And so the epic Drew’s Trackside Adventure to Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota begins! After drawing up plans for this three-state railfan trip, Drew and Trains art director Tom Danneman hit the road for their first stop in Wyoming coal country. MRVP cameras are there as BNSF and Union Pacific coal traffic keeps the rails of the […]

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Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 17 – Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Freight train winds through wide open prairie.

And so the epic Drew’s Trackside Adventure to Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota begins! After drawing up plans for this three-state railfan trip, Drew and Trains art director Tom Danneman hit the road for their first stop in Wyoming coal country. MRVP cameras are there as BNSF and Union Pacific coal traffic keeps the rails of the […]

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MR Insider Exclusive: A visit to the Colorado Model Railroad Museum

A model railroad at the Colorado Railroad Museum

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Neil Besougloff, Editor of Model Railroader magazine, recently traveled to Greeley, Colo., with a video camera in tow. Watch the stunning footage he captured of the Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s massive HO scale layout. And don’t miss the bonus coverage of his side […]

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Fastest hogger on the slim-gauge

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A predecessor of this Rio Grande engineer made a daring Chama–Durango run in 1923. A. C. Kalmbach My grandfather, Marvin Rhodes, lived for almost a century, and he spent more than half of his long life working out of Durango, Colo., on the narrow-gauge lines of the Denver & Rio Grande Western. He hired out […]

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Member video: Division Point brass Denver & Rio Grande Western Krauss-Maffei ML-4000s

Division Point brass Denver & Rio Grande Western Krauss-Maffei ML-4000s

This unusual trio of Division Point brass D&RGW Krauss-Maffei ML-4000s is taking a trip around the club layout with a dynamometer car and freight consist in tow. Bringing up the rear is an OMI brass D&RGW caboose. I installed Loksound 4 decoders in each locomotive. Also, each locomotive require nine LEDs to make up the […]

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Member video: Division Point brass Denver & Rio Grande Western Krauss-Maffei ML-4000s

Division Point brass Denver & Rio Grande Western Krauss-Maffei ML-4000s

This unusual trio of Division Point brass D&RGW Krauss-Maffei ML-4000s is taking a trip around the club layout with a dynamometer car and freight consist in tow. Bringing up the rear is an OMI brass D&RGW caboose. I installed Loksound 4 decoders in each locomotive. Also, each locomotive require nine LEDs to make up the […]

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