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Product Review: MAC Rail EOT Devices

Product Review: Rapido Lightweight Dining Car

Product Review: Grain Belt Models Bins and Culverts

Product Review: Walthers Modern Yard Office

Product Review: PIKO SmartControl light

Product Review – Walthers Switch Machine

Product Review – InterMountain ET44AC GEVO

Product Review: InterMountain N-scale hoppers

Print Edition Reviews

Athearn HO-Scale ACF 2970 Texas & Pacific Center Flow Hopper – September/October 2007

Atlas GP30 – July/August 2008

Athearn HO-Scale GP38-2 – March/April 2013

ScaleTrains HO-Scale UP GTEL “Big Blow” Turbine – November/December 2016

ScaleTrains’ HO-Scale UP “Big Blow” *– Courtesy ScaleTrains*

Kato Sound Box DC Control System – May/June 2015

InterMountain N-Scale SD40-2 – May/June 2017

InterMountain HO-Scale GP10 Paducah – September/October 2017

Walthers HO-Scale Modern Yard Office – November/December 2019

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Pass the Salt

Salt is the primary commodity on the Ithaca Central, which is rebuilding business on the portion of the Lehigh Valley line from Ludlowville, NY, to Sayre, PA. A trio of SD40-2s can usually be seen hauling rusty hoppers and tank cars up the hill out of Ithaca, NY, and around picturesque Cayuga Lake. Watco Companies signed a 10-year lease in 2018 with Norfolk Southern to operate the 48.8-mile stretch.
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Destined for the curb, a museum-quality O-gauge layout has been painstakingly reassembled over nearly two decades and fills 1,500 square feet over a trucking business.

– Pat Hapin
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As model train shows continue to cancel dates, two groups in Colorado and Oklahoma masked up and hosted shows in July…

Traffic on North American railroads continues to lag 2019’s pace. Rail volume in the U.S. Canada and Mexico for the first 32 weeks of 2020 was down 11.5 percent compared to last year…

Through scenery that “enchants the eye,” riding the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha was quite a trip…

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Product News & Review

MAC Rail HO EOT Devices

MAC Rail, LLC, arrives on the HO rolling stock accessories scene with affordable, efficient EOTs to designate end of trains for operations.

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