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WalthersProto HO EMD SD9

Rapido Trains HO scale Budd Slumbercoach

Jacksonville Terminal N container flatcar

How Pennsylvania RR’s train-phone worked

Keeping the hobby alive

How to model a portable toilet rail cart

Build an N scale barn • A photo in an office inspired this modeling project

North Carolina on a shelf • A compact, freelanced HO scale railroad in a spare room

CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF FUN • See what’s happening on The Model Railroad Club’s HO scale Hudson, Delaware & Ohio today

Build a WORKING DISPLAY CASE • Move locomotives and rolling stock from the layout to the display case — without picking them up

Going to the FEC Pompano Market • Two track plans based on an industrial switching area in South Florida

Build a handy PAINTING JIG • This device can be adjusted to work with HO scale freight cars of any length

Solder or adhesive?

GET YOUR VOTES IN! • The Model Railroader Hall of Fame is getting ready to induct its inaugural class, and we need your help

Journey’s end

Trackside Photos

By the Yard

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The look and feel of the place