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Tom Lund, your host, is a life-long modeler and former Model Railroader art director. Tom’s techniques will bring your scenes to life no matter what era or region you model.
Back in the early days of model railroading, backdrops were the exception
Often times when building a model railroad, it can be difficult to avoid flat, empty areas in your scene. Maybe the landscape upon which you’ve designed your layout is made up mostly of cornfields, or perhaps your train tracks pass through an industrial town without much other than a few buildings.
The Piermont Division of the Western Maryland is Howard Zane’s beautifully scenicked and detailed model of a West Virginia coal hauler
This is Part 2 of Howard Zane’s Piermont Division. This HO layout showcases Fifties era Appalachian railroading using equipment from the Clinchfield, Western Maryland, Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk & Western.
Bill Aldrich’s New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad is a memory machine for the halcyon days of New England railroading -a time when Bill, his relatives and friends worked along the Shore Line. Half his life was spent with the New Haven first as a passenger and then as a consultant and finally as member of the board of directors. Thus, he had access to a lot of research material that he’s used to reproduce his favorite railroad.
Lance Mindheim’s Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville is an N scale layout that was built for reliable operation
See SD40-2 helpers along with new SD40E’s, intermodal, freight, coal, and various other trains. In a little over 2 hours, we’ll see 73 trains and 18 helper movements from Altoona to Cresson!
If you stand in the Mojave Desert, you feel the intense heat, the desert wind, a sense of desolation…and you then notice the mile long BNSF intermodal train racing by at 80mph, followed by another, then another
This is the perfect introduction of the entire NS Heritage Fleet. Covering the NS Family Portrait held at the North Carolina Transportation Museum, we introduce each heritage unit including its history, and maps of current trackage.
The story of Northshore Mining Railroad: The Little Giant! A successor to the original Reserve Mining Railroad, this is the little railroad that could, did, and does in a big way!
To celebrate Arizona’s centennial anniversary, this special Santa Fe 3751 passenger excursion pulled guests through two deserts, the Arizona divide, and onto the Grand Canyon.
For the first time in over 30 years, steam has returned to the Pittsburgh Line! As a part of NS’ 21st Century Steam Program, the Nickel Plate 2-8-4 Berkshire #765 was called to lead an employee excursion train to celebrate the company’s 30th Anniversary. The NKP #765 traveled to Harrisburg, PA to operate the employee…
At Busy Grand Island, Nebraska featured two diamonds and a halting flow of Union Pacific and Burlington Northern traffic. A railfan’s dream.
At Boonville, Indiana, two coal hauling railroads share the same trackage; The Yankeetown Dock Railroad and Peabody’s Squaw Creek Railroad. In Part 1 of Boonville Delights, we take a look at the busier Yankeetown Dock Railroad.
The Squaw Creek operated with bright yellow, aging, diesels from the AMAX mine north of Boonville down to the docks located on the YDC for transferring into barges.
George Redmond traveled to Fort Madison, Iowa to capture the action on the Santa Fe Transcon – and spent 3 days at this busy hot spot.
Journey back in time with George Redmond, to the 1980s and 1990s. It was an exciting time in American railroading. This show covers hot spots in 4 states with 8 railroads.
Iowa had a lot of railroad lines and most are gone now, including mainlines of the Milwaukee Road and the Chicago Great Western. It is fortunate the Iowa Interstate was created to keep the old Rock Island Line across Iowa in operation. A true “regional”, the road invented a color scheme that attractively combines the…
Canadian National operates a former Wisconsin Central train from Steven’s Point, Wisconsin and traverses the old Soo Line and WC route to Minneapolis. Once in the Twin Cities, this train is known as the CN transfer and its symbol is L506.
Watch Trains Magazine cover 19 of the most memorable moments in railroading over the past year! Travel across the country hitting high spots, witnessing important locomotives and restorations, and experiencing history.
Steam Rotary OY and 2 Mikados. The San Juan Mountains thundered in a continuous eruption of steam, smoke and snow. Shot in HD in 2020.
Steam on mainline! See 6 big steamers running flat out on American high iron: NKP 765, MILW 261, SP 4449, UP 4014, UP 844 and N&W 611. It’s a variety of visual treats!
Milwaukee Road 261 and a passenger consist went to eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota for a series of employee appreciation and public trips on the Red River Valley & Western.
We follow the J’s last public mainline excursions out of Roanoke, and a Lynchburg to Petersburg round trip in May 2017. Then we see her historic trip to the Strasburg Railroad in 2019.
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