Logging train on the W&Q

Homemade garden-scale live steam logging locomotive passes near a figure posed at a train depot.

Name:  Eric Schade Forum User Name: captain perry Railroad Name:  Winnegance & Quebec Location: Phippsburg, Maine Scale: 1:20.3 Theme:  Maine narrow gauge (logging today) Description: Follow along as my little scratch built logging engine “Tobias” takes a loop around the Winnegance and Quebec Railway. This engine is not a “BARGS” but is similar. It started […]

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Modeler’s Spotlight Video–Inside Cody’s Office for April 26, 2012

Cody making scenery using cardboard and strips of cloth

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Follow associate editor Cody Grivno as he shows you how to make a model railroad scenery base using cardboard strips and plaster cloth. You’ll also see the latest model railroading products to arrive at the Model Railroader offices, including an HO scale passenger […]

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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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Video: Animated grade crossing signal on Pelle Soeborg’s HO scale model railroad

a model train passing by a grade crossing

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Expert model railroader Pelle Søeborg added an animated grade crossing signal with flashing lights, gates, and sound to his HO scale model railroad. Pelle models the modern-era Union Pacific on his model train layout. See a Digital Command Control (DCC) sound equipped locomotive […]

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Building the Virginian Ry. part 18

David Popp next to layout

It’s weathering time on the Model Railroader staff’s HO scale Virginian Ry. Associate editor Cody Grivno shows you his techniques for weathering the freight train cars on the model railroad. He’ll also show you how to use an airbrush to realistically weather a diesel locomotive model. All those weathered coal hoppers need loads, so managing […]

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