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Combining Locations Into A Single Layout

June 21, 2007

What’s All This Worth?

June 19, 2007

You may have wondered as you gaze over the vast array of model trains and layout you either inherited or built, what’s all this stuff worth? I mean, you either know or suspect what you paid or someone close to you did, but what value should you attach to it should you want to sell [...]

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A Look Into The Future?

June 18, 2007

While surfing the other day I came across this article in the Daily Times-Call newspaper and started thinking about it’s significance. Is this where the world of model railroad manufacturing is headed?
This company, Intermountain Railway co. of Longmont Colorado has whittled and pared their business down to what they consider a manageable business model, [...]

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How To Light Your Model Railroad for Photos

June 18, 2007

Photography is an art, and never is this more obvious than when you set about lighting your model train layout for some killer pictures. It’s not simply a matter of flooding the area with light and see what happens, and it’s not depending solely on your flash, whatever camera you have. What happens won’t be [...]

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World’s Scariest Model Train Wrecks

June 14, 2007

I came across this video on Youtube today. It’s meant as a joke but I have a feeling most of us have experienced something like this on our own railroads…

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Some Ideas For Expanding Your Model Train Layout

June 13, 2007

There comes a time in every good man’s life when they simply must have more. No getting around it, no sugar-coating, no skirting the issue. Your model train layout simply needs to expand, and there is no time like the present!
While this is a fun thing to think about, expanding your model train layout [...]

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Four Model Train Events Coming Up!

June 13, 2007

Three model train events are coming up the weekend of June 23-24, and if they happen to be in your area you may want to get out see what’s happening!
The 4th Annual North Carolina Rail Fair will be held Saturday, June 23rd at the Metrolina Expo Center (building 1) 7100 Statesville Rd in Charlotte NC [...]

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Attention Northern California Model Railroaders!

June 11, 2007

The 2007 Railroad Days in Dunsmuir, a tradition in this area since the 1940’s, this year will feature not only two G-scale model railroad layouts, one of them with actual steam locomotives, but some of the real thing, as as a collection of Union pacific and Portola Railroad Museum will be available for public viewing. [...]

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New Models from Atlas and Atlas O

June 11, 2007

Atlas and it’s sister company Atlas O will unveil several new models this fall in several different scales.
First in N scale, the C-420, coming out in October, will sport the colors of the Arkansas & Missouri, Delaware and Hudson, Lehigh & Hudson River, Conrail, Lehigh Valley, Nickel Plate Road and Louisville & Nashville. There will [...]

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