Name: Cascade Pacific Scale: O (1:48) Size: 15′-6″ x 44′-6″ Prototype: freelance Locale: Pacific Northwest Era: late 1960s Style: walkaround Mainline run: 96 feet Minimum radius: 42″ Maximum turnout: no. 5 yard, no. 6 main Maximum grade: 1 percent Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan. […]
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF POWER COMPANY COAL TRAINS, there are only two firms that pop to my mind as having business-specific unit trains – fast freighters operated for United Parcel Service and Tropicana. And while a UPS train contains trailers with thousands of individual packages, the Tropicana Juice Train carries just one commodity: orange juice. […]
This multi-level layout plan, contributed Lou Melick, first appeared in the December 2007 issue of CLASSIC TOY TRAINS. A previously published CTT track plan inspired this affordable and fun holiday layout. […]
Subscribers can watch these scenes filmed on location at Senior Editor, Kent Johnson’s O gauge hi-rail home layout. […]
Norm is back, and in our November 2009 issue he shows you the latest addition to the realistic modeling on his home railroad. […]
The mid-1990s were a great time in toy trains full of changes in both the trains themselves as well as in command control. For Ray Mansfield, it was the time to launch work on the layout he had been waiting all his life to build. Watch the streaming video below demonstrating some of the exciting […]
Norm is back, and in our November 2009 issue he shows you the latest addition to the realistic modeling on his home railroad. […]
Subscribers can watch these scenes filmed on location at Senior Editor, Kent Johnson’s O gauge hi-rail home layout. […]
The mid-1990s were a great time in toy trains full of changes in both the trains themselves as well as in command control. For Ray Mansfield, it was the time to launch work on the layout he had been waiting all his life to build. Watch the streaming video below demonstrating some of the exciting […]
THE TARGET OF OUR ATTENTION HERE is another addition to the locomotive lineup for the Atlas O Trainman series of value-priced, scale-dimension, three-rail products. Our Atlas model is a General Electric U23B, a four-axle freight-hauler. Don’t let the model number fool you. The General Electric U23B came after the venerable U25B. Of course, the original […]
ON THE CUSP OF ALCO’S DECLINING YEARS, the Schenectady, N.Y. locomotive builder fielded the 1,800 horsepower RS-11 as a replacement in the catalog for its popular RS-3 (and its cousins). The new Alco locomotive could be purchased in low- or high-hood versions and was suitable for both freight and passenger operations. Its natural target was […]
UNDER THE OWNERSHIP OF BACHMANN INDUSTRIES, the Williams line of O gauge trains remains filled with solidly built, quality products that are affordably priced. This was the key to success under Jerry Williams, and it continues as the hallmark under Bachmann’s management. Strictly speaking, what we’re examining today isn’t a set in the sense that […]
