Locos - Rolling stock (general)
Apr 2016-4 - Notch 8: Installing freight car ladders
Notch 8 is a TrainMasters TV exclusive series. Trevor Marshall hosts, with techniques for super-detailing, painting and weathering locomotives and rolling stock from award-winning modelers across North America. In this segment, professional modeler Pierre Oliver returns with techniques for installing etched-brass ladders on a boxcar.
This seems too good to be true 24 Bachmann freight cars
I you have seen my other topic, I am thinking of moving from HO to N Scale. I have come across this from Bachmann
This makes them $10.77 each. Normally, N scale frieght cars are around $18 - $24 each. Has anyone bought this set? Is it a quick way to stock up?
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Introduction to Bessemer & Lake Erie Class NE1 Caboose
Kris Kristofferson penned the line: “I’d trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.” I think he may have been a model railroader. We all have our reasons that bring us into this hobby, but the underlying reason, I believe, is nostalgia. It’s true, many of us model the here and now, but the bulk of us are trying to recreate a moment or season in our past.
Greenville & Howland Paper. Work in progress
Working on some foreground scenes for my paper mill complex. Still need to weather the heavy equipment but that will come in time.
The tracks at GHP is the eastern terminus for the railroad and uses both tracks in this area for switching. The layout uses a "modified" double oval being that the main track is the outside loop and the passing track is the inside loop. The passing track has almost all of the industries on the layout with the exception of the Town of Bownell which is the midpoint and has a few sidings there.
Scratchbuilt Rolling Stock Update
Hello Everyone,
I thought I'd update you on my latest scratchbuilding projects. You can see my original post on a flatcar here:
http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/22544
Apr 2016-2 - ESU LED lighting strips
Matt Herman from ESU returns to the set of DCC Decoded in the TrainMasters TV studio to demonstrate LED lighting strips for passenger cars.
Watch it now on TrainMasters TV ....
Wanted, Prototype Photos and data: NSC 115 Ton Aggregate Hopper
I want to scratch build this rail car, so this is a request for any photos, details, or accurate drawings of the real thing.
It's a fairly new model of an open top Aggregate hopper, manufactured by National Steel Car.
https://www.steelcar.com/products/open-top-hopper
If you have photos or measurements of this particular car, and don't mind sharing them, please let me know.
Apr 2016-1 - Wireless Dead Rail™ loco control
Dead Rail™ or “Cold Rail”, wireless control and battery power for locomotives is new territory for many of us in the model railroad hobby. This month in The Backshop Clinic, Miles shows off a loco project that uses a Deltang receiver and a battery.
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