Cars & Trucks News 09-10
HERPA heats up autumn with new models in their CARS & TRUCKS NEWS, for September and October.
Atlas August 2023 Summer Fun Volume 2
ATLAS announces teir "summer collection" including a new run of N Scale S-2 Locomotives.
Z Scale 53' Evans Double Plug Door Box Car
ATLAS announces their foray into Z scale, which is 1:220. This 53' Evans Double Plug Door Box Car is their first rolling stock model.
Nevada Northern Engine House
To maintain their first generation Alcos and 100+ year-old steam locomotives, the Nevada Northern Railway in Ely, Nevada operates this engine house. In 2007 I toured this fantastical realm of railroad reverence.
Nevada Northern No.40
A place you can go to run a 100+ year-old steam locomotive - yeah, right! But it is not a myth and you do not have to capture a unicorn to find the Nevada Northern Railway in Ely, Nevada. In 2007 I partook of this fantastical realm of railroad reverence...
Railway Guns British and German Guns at War
I get a chance to look into a new book from Pen and Sword Railway Guns British and German Guns at War to see if they were on point with such a fascinating subject.
Heading to the Scrap Yard!! The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52
Jean-Marie Bruggheman and his stunning work on the DRB Class 52 The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52 is a German steam locomotive built in large numbers during the Second World War. It was the most produced type of the so-called Kriegslokomotiven or Kriegsl...
Rusty Rails 1934 Ford Tow Truck and New Castings
Well here we are already March. Here a few HO scale items and also a new O scale item.
New From Atlas - N, HO and O
ATLAS has been announcing new models in O, HO and N, and here we spotlight them.
Rachel, 2-4-4T Steam Locomotive
Rachel, a Vulcan Iron Works 1920 2-4-4T steam loco.
Round-end Concrete Grain Elevator, Layout Scenes 6
Our Northern Plains correspondent HARV again provides us with many scenes useful to model railroaders, and other model genres. Here he spotted this interesting round-end concrete grain elevator in Wyoming.
Railroad Grain Elevator, Corrugated, Layout Scenes 5
Our Northern Plains correspondent HARV provides us with many scenes useful to model railroaders, and other model genres. Here he spotted this classic Railroad Grain Elevator in Wyoming.
Scene Around the Railroad, Layout Scenes 4
Come look and appreciate the wonderful and weird colors and formations of scenery seen along railroads.
Rail Car Truck Muck, Layout Scenes 3
This feature presents some colors of real rail car wheel weathering.