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Rapido Amtrak RTL Turboliner train set

Atlas N scale Trinity 3230 PD covered hopper

Aurora Miniatures HO Gunderson boxcar

Athearn N scale ACF 4600 covered hopper

How do I add DCC passenger car lighting?

This contributor of yore still going strong

Control turnouts with slide switches

Build an HO scale weed sprayer for fun • Kitbash a maintenance-of-way car from items laying around your workshop

PLEASANT MEMORIES of youth • Childhood railfanning inspired this freelanced 1950s Northeastern industrial railroad

HOW TO WEATHER A COVERED HOPPER • Simple procedures makes this car a good first weathering project

A paper mill in a spare room • This track plan for a single-industry HO scale layout fits in a 10 x 14-foot space

Scratchbuilding Elwell’s Bar • An O scale structure adapted from a discontinued HO scale kit

Planting the structure on the layout

Scratchbuilding a ‘lift-frog’ turnout • Give your layout variety with this unusual turnout

PSXX-AR and Block Watcher

Hat tricks and the “iron mike”

Trackside Photos

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