One interesting feature of this Model Railroader project layout are the folding legs that support the benchwork. Dick Christianson, the layout builder and Model Railroader magazine’s former managing editor, gives you a demonstration of how the folding legs work. He’ll also discuss the fascia and backdrop material that he used for the N scale Salt […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page The HO scale Ohio Southern, built by Senior Editor Jim Hediger, is not only one of the first multi-level model railroads, the layout is also one of the first to use a helix. Listen to Jim recall how he built his first helix […]
Route 66 – the two-lane highway that winds its way from Chicago to Los Angeles – has been immortalized in popular music, literature, and television. Who doesn’t remember the Joads making their way west on the Mother Road of the U.S. in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath or Tod and Buz tooling along in […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page This week Model Railroader Associate Editor Cody Grivno celebrates the 2 year anniversary of the Modeler’s Spotlight video series with a trip south of the border. Along with a look at some new model railroading products, Cody will show you an easy way […]
Dispatcher control (cab control)To operate more than one train using direct current (DC) train control, a model railroad can be divided into a series of isolated electrical blocks. A dispatcher then assigns one or more blocks to an operator’s cab, allowing him to run his train in these areas. Memory throttleA memory throttle allows an […]
Code of railPrototype railroads use rail of varying heights and weights depending on the type and frequency of trains that run on it. On model railroads, code is the height of the rail measured in hundredths of an inch. See fig. 2. FlextrackWhile some modelers handlay their tracks by spiking the rail to individual wood […]
Running trains with Digital Com-mand Control (DCC) is a lot of fun, and it can make operating a model railroad an enjoyable experience. However, all those DCC electronic components and sound decoders don’t mean much if you can’t get a reliable signal to the tracks. When it comes down to it, nickel-silver rail is a […]
Subscribers, you can read Bob Keller’s complete review of this unusual train online here, and then watch the streaming video below. . […]
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Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Learn how to find out the if your freight cars’ couplers are at the correct height and what to do if they’re not. Model Railroader Associate Editor Cody Grivno shows you how to use a Kadee coupler-height gauge and shows you how to […]
