Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this hands-on edition, MRVP Producer and show host David Popp addresses your inquiries, and then demonstrates helpful solutions right before your eyes. This time, topics include structure modeling, electronics/lighting, scenery application, and so much more! […]
ANTONITO, Colo. — Coal smoke flavors the crisp morning air in Antonito, Colo., where brilliant morning sun belies the snowstorm brewing on Cumbres Pass. Barely a week remains before the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad opens its 2016 season with plenty of work left to do before Memorial Day weekend. Today two coaches, two parlor […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this how-to video, MR’s Cody Grivno shows you how quick and easy it is to add realistic weathering to a diesel locomotive of any size or scale. Using an out-of-the -box HO scale model, Cody’s demonstration first walks you through the processes […]
Join Trains Editor Jim Wrinn for a first-hand look at the devastation and reconstruction of a portion of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad’s main line near Frostburg, Md. Heavy rains washed away a significant portion of the route in early 2016 preventing tourists from seeing the railroad in full splendor. […]
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Adding lighting effects like flashing signals, flickering gas lamps, warning strobes, and rotating beacons to a model railroad has never been easier thanks to the Model Rectifier Corp. Light Genie lighting controller. Check out some of the features of this powerful model railroad accessory with Model Railroader associate editor Steve Otte. […]
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Watch as Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. 611 makes its final scheduled mainline runs on Norfolk Southern for 2016 out of Manassas, Va., on June 4 and 5. Only from Trains! […]
The Rivarossi/Hornby USA HO scale General Electric U28C features newly designed handrails and an ESU LokSound Select Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. See and hear this diesel locomotive and it hauls a freight train around the Model Railroader staff’s Milwaukee, Racine & Troy model railroad. […]
Name: Tom Gaps Railroad Name: Lone Pine & Western Location: Milwaukie, Oregon Scale: 1:20.3 Theme: Early 1900’s Minning Branch Line From Lone Pine To Summit Description: Multiple trains running during Rose City Garden Railway Society’s Summer Tour public Open House – June 2016 […]
Strata-Domes and streamlined diesel locomotives highlight the HO scale Capitol Limited passenger train from Walthers. Each passenger car and locomotive is prototypically detailed. Both E unit diesels are powered and include SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoders. See and hear this magnificent passenger train as it makes a run along the Model Railroader […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page New locomotives, model railroading books, and more highlight this month’s episode of Cody’s Office. Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno will also show his method for painting model railroad turnouts on the staff’s new Beer Line extension. Viewer mail this month deals with […]
