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In this week’s Time to Model™ highlight, we’re taking a close look at Jason Quinn’s incredible modeling skills. Thanks to an uncle who purchased him and his brothers their first train set, Jason was introduced to the world of model railroading at the age of five….
An Article by Ian Smith Conrail’s one-hundred-sixty-seven SD40-2 locomotives, purchased from 1977 to 1979, would be among their most reliable power, and were always well-liked by crews. They could be found on manifest and unit trains, along with powering heavy wayfreights. By the early 1990s,…
An Article by Barry Smith I’ve been into HO scale model railroading since 1958 (I hate to count the years now). This grew out of the Lionel train set put up each Christmas around the Christmas tree by my father. When I really started getting…
In this week’s Time to Model Spotlight, we’re featuring several photos of the all-new Rivet Counter HO Scale Kansas City Southern Gunderson Multi-Max Autorack Car that was custom weathered by Daniel Arnold. His weathering and decaling skills really bring out the detail of this fantastic…
An Article by Jon Hill I’d like to thank ScaleTrains.com for another opportunity to do a how-to weathering article. What I hope to accomplish is to show some different techniques that some modelers may not have used before. We start off with a pair…
This week, we’re highlighting the weathering techniques of world-renowned model railroader and author Pelle K. Søeborg in our “Time to Model” series. Recently, Pelle compiled a quick guide to locomotive weathering, with tips and tricks on how to add realistic road grime to our Rivet Counter HO Scale Tier 4 GEVO…
An Article by Justin Sobeck After seeing a handful of these BNSF Heritage Hoppers in unit grain trains around Kansas City, I thought it would be fun to add some additional fidelity by highlighting the details on this already great model. The fun part…
As the most powerful locomotives ever built, the “Big Blow” Turbine represented an era of Class I railroading where anything was possible and continues to be an inspiration to many railroaders today, including Michael Stokes, a lifelong modeler, railfan, and locomotive engineer for Union Pacific…
In this week’s Time to Model highlights, we’re featuring two modelers and their spectacular custom weathering work. Corey Stollar and Luis May recently shared some fantastic images with us of their custom Rivet Counter HO Carbon Black Covered Hopper Cars which have been weathered according…
An Article by Justin Sobeck I remember hearing of the BNSF merger in the mid-1990s through the railfan press and growing up along a former Burlington Northern line, I recall fondly seeing some of the first newly painted BNSF units to hit the rails. The…
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