Modeler’s Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office for June 16, 2011

Inside Cody's Office for June 16, 2011

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Learn painting tips that will make the knuckle couplers on your model railroad rolling stock look more realistic. In addition to modeling tips, associate editor Cody Grivno shows you some of the latest products to arrive in the Model Railroader offices. […]

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Green, gold, and gorgeous!

Southern Railway 2-8-2 No. 4501 pulls a National Railway Historical Society convention train on Sept. 5, 1966 from Keysville, Va., to Richmond, Va. This was among the first excursions that led to the development of Southern Railway’s famous series of annual excursions that ran between 1966 and 1994. Today, the 1911 Baldwin is under restoration […]

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A Railroader’s Work is Never Done

The conductor of train BUSW, “The Peoria Rocket,” sweeps the north switch at the Limit Yard on the edge of Peoria, Ill., as the crew, southbound on Subdivision 2 of the Iowa Interstate, prepares to interchange an empty Cedar Rapids, Iowa, coal train with the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad on Dec. 13, 2010. Steve Smedley […]

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