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News & Reviews

Train shows are bigger in Texas

Atlas enters Z scale freight car market

Club offerings

Atlas N scale Alco S4 diesel locomotive

Walthers HO Trinity 4750 covered hopper

ScaleTrains HO scale 40-foot PS-1 boxcar kit

The mystery of the overhead bunker reefer

Transfer table looks like the real thing

Modeling marsh reeds

A PROTOTYPICAL look for TURNOUTS • A few parts and tools take the look of handlaid turnouts to the next level

Building a camera car • This scratchbuilt car gives Lou Sassi spectacular on-board videos of his On30 Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes railroad

Amazing ALLEGHENY museum layout • This 40 x 100-foot HO scale model railroad is set in the steam-to-diesel transition era

The Penn Central in Bellefonte, Pa. • This HO scale plan was inspired by a contest

An architectural Paradise Island • The Soo Line Central showcases scratchbuilt replicas of skyscrapers from around the world

Build an OPERATIONS DRAWER • A homemade fascia fixture adds a writing surface and storage for paperwork

PROTECTING A LIFT GATE automatically • An electric plunger switch keeps trains from taking the plunge

Wreckers and Western Union

More DCC electrical basics

Trackside Photos

Getting out and getting under