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I met the enemy, and he was me
Weathering freight cars with decals
DIGGING INTO BETTER TUNNELS • Four ways to improve an often necessary scenic feature
POWER PICKUPS for rolling stock • Phosphor-bronze wire makes a reliable electrical pickup for interior and exterior car lighting systems
Backdating Quisling, Calif. • Adapting a 1980s modular layout to represent the 1950s
Kitbash a fishing fleet • Ship models in various scales provide the raw materials for this HO scale project
Building WINGATE in O scale • PART 1: Choosing a prototype and developing a plan for a compact one-town railroad
Scratchbuild a BIG-CITY STATION • Kansas City Union Station inspired this freelanced HO scale structure
Build a working WATER TANK • Plans from a 1950s Model Railroader article were modified to change scales and add an operating spout driven by a slow-motion switch motor
How to model a CHAIN LINK FENCE • Create an HO scale fence in just a few steps
APPALACHIAN BRIDGE LINE ON A SHELF • The N scale Gauley & Shavers Fork features interchangeable scenes and a 1960s diesel-era setting
Sound for legacy locomotives – F units
WalthersMainline HO Alco PA and PB diesels
Atlas HO GP40-2(W) diesel locomotive
Woodland Static King static grass applicator
Eastern Seaboard Models N scale Penn Central 50-foot boxcar
Reading rooms and rattlesnakes
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