MR Insider Exclusive: A visit to the The General

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page While Neil and David were in Atlanta for the National Train Show, they took a side trip to Kennesaw, Ga., to visit the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History. Included in the museum’s collection is The General, the 4-4-0 Western & […]

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‘Happy 10th birthday, David Watson!’

SAL 3001 Comer

A trio of new Seaboard E4 diesels, perhaps the very ones “David Watson” saw in Florida three months earlier, shows off the citrus-hued Orange Blossom Special livery in March 1939. Hugh M. Comer, David W. Salter coll. To be addressed by my first and middle names by my parents meant one of two things. Either […]

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Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 6 – Florida East Coast Railway

Drew Halverson poses with a vividly painted red-and-yellow Florida East Coast locomotive.

Drew models the Florida East Coast RR in N scale, and on this Trackside Adventure, he’s off to Florida to chase some of his favorite trains. Along the way, Drew shares photos of the construction of his N scale FEC photo diorama. […]

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3D Track Plans: The HO scale Wadley Branch Lines

HO scale Wadley Branch Lines 3d track plan

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page The Central of Georgia Ry. Had a number of branch lines, and two of them connected to the main line in Wadley, Georgia. This HO scale track plan models the Lousiville & Wadley and the Wadley Southern Ry. In a 13 x 15 […]

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3D Track Plans: The HO scale Wadley Branch Lines

HO scale Wadley Branch Lines 3d track plan

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page The Central of Georgia Ry. Had a number of branch lines, and two of them connected to the main line in Wadley, Georgia. This HO scale track plan models the Lousiville & Wadley and the Wadley Southern Ry. In a 13 x 15 […]

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North Carolina desires restoration of abandoned rail line NEWSWIRE

RALEIGH, N. C. – Legislators in North Carolina filed a bill today calling on the state’s department of transportation to upgrade some existing rail lines and fund the restoration of 27 miles of abandoned railroad between the towns of Castle Hayne and Wallace. The line was abandoned by CSX Transportation in the 1990s. Proponents hope […]

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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad experiences derailment NEWSWIRE

BRYSON CITY, N.C. – An excursion train on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad derailed on Wednesday morning, reports WLOS-TV. The train derailed four of five cars approximately five miles west of Bryson City. There were 190 people on board and no injuries reported. A second train was sent out to pick up the passengers. American […]

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