Video Walthers HO scale El Capitan model passenger train

Train passing over a bridge

In 1956, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. re-equipped its El Capitan passenger train with all-new streamlined equipment, including Hi-Level cars. Check out this HO scale model of the famous train from Wm. K. Walthers Inc. We ran the train on the Model Railroader staff’s club model train layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]

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Video: Bachmann Trains HO scale Alco 2-6-0 Mogul

See and hear the Bachmann Trains Sound Value Alco 2-6-0 Mogul run along a stretch of the Model Railroader club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. You’ll get a demonstration of some of the sound effect features of the model’s factory-installed SoundTraxx Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder. […]

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Video: MRC DCC sound decoders for Kato N scale F7 diesels

In the June 2012 Model Railroader managing editor David Popp describes how to install a Model Rectifier Corp. (MRC) no. 0001957 Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder into a Kato N scale F7A diesel locomotive model. Watch a demonstration of the DCC sound equipped models, as they haul the Kato N scale El Capitan around […]

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Model train set video: Walthers HO scale Trainline Canadian Pacific train set

The Walthers HO scale Trainline Canadian Pacific model train set includes a loop of Bachmann Trains E-Z track, a power pack, three freight cars, a caboose, and a diesel locomotive with operating headlight. Model Railroader senior editor Dana Kawala shows you how to set up and operate this model train set. […]

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