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Started by Rigby in Dream and design: MODS: can kill this thread if you like - I was on a specific search, and found what I was looking for: https://www.aorailroad.com/ I am looking for information about a...
Dream and design 6 3 259 1779982051
MRH 2026 Reader Survey - Take it now!

Started by MRH in General discussion: 📷 MRH READER SURVEY 📷
General discussion 39 16 3,323 1779981779
Rick's Diner - May, 2026 Edition

Started by Kevin Parson in General discussion: 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷
General discussion 236 2 3,954 1779981561
Building and Detailing a CMR Roundhouse

Started by Analogbeatmaker in Scenery and structures: Hello all! I recently finished the roundhouse floor and have started on the structure itself. I decided to buy a NOS roundhouse kit manufactured by CMR as opposed to the readily available Walthers...
Scenery and structures 39 18 1,247 1779981314
What's on your workbench? May 2026

Started by Eric Hansmann in General discussion Workbench: Onward into another month and more of your workbench and layout projects! The projects shared last month looked great! Thank you for sharing! I’m sure we will kick off May in fine form. I am...
General discussion Workbench 163 5 6,373 1779981139
Tie plate styles

Started by dperry in Prototype railroading: Restricting my question to tie plates used on plain track, I'm wondering what styles/versions were used where and when. Why 5-, 6- or more-holes? I'm looking at a document...
Prototype railroading 6 1 74 1779981074
Fascia with a bump in it

Started by DSteckler in Benchwork and roadbed: In the March 2026 issue, Joe Fugate wrote about building a removable fascia panel and placing the wiring between it and the table edge. 📷 In the illustration you can see a...
Benchwork and roadbed 1 0 2 1779980681
Community app

Started by George Hofmann in General discussion: The MRH app on my Android tablet failed to open over the weekend. I don't remember the details but i managed to replace the app with another called 'Community' that I am using now. It seems to be an...
General discussion 2 0 94 1779979371
Ed Tougaw’s Intermont & Western Railroad

Started by MRH in Magazine feedback: 📷 Buy this issue! Share this: 📷 📷 📷 📷 Please post any comments or questions you have below. ◄ Back to issue home page 📷 Want more articles like this one?...
Magazine feedback 1 3 108 1779978619
Hot Air Solder & Rework Station....

Started by Sumner in Track and electrical/DCC: I had seen a couple videos on using a Hot Air solder & rework station and was impressed but felt it was probably something I wouldn't use. Then saw the video ( HERE ) and that really got my...
Track and electrical/DCC 12 3 197 1779977896
UHU All Purpose Adhesive

Started by Rick Beatty in General discussion: Anybody use this stuff? I just found out that I need to use an adhesive to to attach a PECO PL-13 to a PL-10. This is one of the recommended products. If you are familiar with the line is there a...
General discussion 2 2 157 1779977762
Union Pacific's N Scale Canyon Division...

Started by Sumner in Journals/Blogs: Scenery to Track Elevator – Part 1 ...... . Finally after months of CAD, 3D printing and Electronics projects I’m back actually doing something constructive on the layout. Before laying more...
Journals/Blogs 162 8 5,501 1779977665
Making Rapido SW9s work with SoundTraxx decoders and their MoPower keep-alive

Started by Jwmutter in Locos and rolling stock: Has anyone been able to get the new Rapido SW9s equipped with their “MoPower” keep-alive to work, using the keep-alive, with SoundTraxx decoders? I installed a Tsu-21PNEM8 decoder and...
Locos and rolling stock 64 2 1,004 1779977656
Weekly Photo Fun - May 24-30, 2026

Started by JC Shall in General discussion Photos: It's another week . . . post 'em if you got 'em. There were a few late-comers in last week's post . Check them out, then come back here afterward.
General discussion Photos 23 3 746 1779977117
an auto-reverser

Started by greg ciurpita in Track and electrical/DCC: i just compleed testing what i think is a fairly simple auto-reverser on a solderless breadboard using an Aduino Nano (Pro Micro) and latching relay. 📷 📷 the key to both an...
Track and electrical/DCC 0 0 15 1779976978
San Ramon Valley & Northern News

Started by -e-c-mills- in Journals/Blogs: 📷 Here we present to you the monthly publications of the Chamisa Standard and the Farmer as well as the SRVN Fan Bolg.
Journals/Blogs 86 0 8,488 1779976023
Union Pacific attempting to buy Norfolk Southern

Started by Wendell1976 in General discussion: I hope this WILL NOT happen! Report: UP/NS Merger Afoot? - Railway Age https://share.google/bvizKyv6M2aqav3QI ...
General discussion 267 8 6,256 1779975332
Repairing gears on truck axles

Started by Raphael in General discussion: I'm fixing an O Scale (2-rails) GP9 for a friend. It's a Red Caboose GP9, DC only. It stopped working recently out of the blue. After cleaning wheel contacts and making sure the motor worked well,...
General discussion 57 1 3,279 1779973499
Fort Worth & Denver in HO scale

Started by JLGuess in Journals/Blogs: Howdy all! I want to begin by saying I’m not new to the hobby or the forum. Due to not having access to my old email account I’m having to create a new account here. I’m starting this blog to...
Journals/Blogs 0 0 29 1779973425
Prototype Photographs 2026

Started by Nick Santo in Prototype railroading Photos: Hello! I enjoyed all your photographs from 2025 and before! Thank You for posting them!!! Please feel free to add photos when you have them! I’m sure I’ll have more to add this...
Prototype railroading Photos 247 5 8,218 1779964163
HO Freelance Decals wanted….

Started by TOM Gregory in Locos and rolling stock: I enjoy creating Freelance Boxcars . I’m looking for other modelers who would like to share some of the decals they have so I can create a Boxcar to represent their railroad. any one interested?
Locos and rolling stock 2 0 136 1779944288
Let's see a model of... May, 2026 Edition

Started by Kevin Parson in General discussion: 📷
General discussion 101 2 3,311 1779943747
Walthers Structure Combinations, Extentions and Modifications (Knowledge Base Thread)

Started by RichmondTerminal in Scenery and structures Structures Kitbashing Walthers: This is a thread to share knowledge on how to combine, extend, and modify Walthers' Cornerstone structure kits. Two recent things were the genesis of this thread: I got to the point on the...
Scenery and structures Structures Kitbashing Walthers 13 3 845 1779938849
Tour of the Pennsylvania Dutch County

Started by Mitchell Schuessler in Journals/Blogs modular Pennsylvania 1970s layout design: Since I've wrapped up planning for these lines, I wanted to take a poll from the forum on which routes they would want to see in my layout plan. All these routes have been hand drawn, and a best...
Journals/Blogs modular Pennsylvania 1970s layout design 51 3 1,180 1779937826
Charley's HO 1939 SoCal Journal

Started by chepp in Journals/Blogs modular: Hi, folks! This is my introduction to journal entries based on my interest in the Santa Fe Second District (between Pasadena and San Bernardino, California) of the Los Angeles Division as it looked,...
Journals/Blogs modular 90 14 11,214 1779937327
Make the layout room inviting

Started by MRH in Magazine feedback: 📷 Read this issue! Share this: 📷 📷 📷 📷 Please post any comments or questions you have below. ◄ Back to issue home page 📷 Want more articles like this one?...
Magazine feedback 29 16 1,120 1779937070
Shamrock Logging & Navigation Co. - Layout Journal

Started by Thomas1911 in Journals/Blogs: Hello all, First, a short introduction. My name is Thomas. I’ve been reading MRH and mostly lurking here on the forums for quite a few years now. Like most here, I’ve had a near life-long...
Journals/Blogs 78 26 4,025 1779933419
AC&Y’s Spur 4 – A N Scale Prototype Modeling Adventure

Started by AC&Y Guy Steve in Journals/Blogs N Scale: Welcome to my N scale prototype modeling adventure. I'll begin with an Index page as Joe suggests. The Prototype I'm Prototype Modeling
Journals/Blogs N Scale 69 8 2,910 1779930463
What's New To You - May, 2026 Edition

Started by Kevin Parson in Getting started: I actually got something NEW! My brand-new Highlners A Unit kit arrived today. 📷 📷 📷 -Photographs by Kevin Parson I am almost ready to start the EMD F1...
Getting started 6 9 388 1779929535
Emerald Pacific Rail in HO - Western NY State Freelance

Started by James in Journals/Blogs Shelf Layout HO scale Freelance: This little shelf layout started around July 2022 with the intention of having a small 'operational diorama' up on the garage wall, at the time I was hooked on tight industrial switching work and had...
Journals/Blogs Shelf Layout HO scale Freelance 28 24 1,114 1779923230
Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 Eastern Leg

Started by Rick Beatty in Prototype railroading: The schedule for the trip east has been released. Major display stops are: May 30 – Omaha, Nebraska (near the Union Pacific's historic Milepost 0) June 3 – West Chicago, Illinois June...
Prototype railroading 104 6 1,746 1779923175
Proto 2000 engines - cracked gears = buzzing sound?

Started by Shawnee in Locos and rolling stock: Hi all, and happy holidays ~ I recently acquired at a bargain basement rate ($20 each) 16 B&O Proto 2000 engines - GP7s, GP9s GP30s and a E8 A-B set. I believe the vast majority of these...
Locos and rolling stock 41 2 998 1779917633
Publisher’s Musings: 2026 survey & Ken Patterson’s fire

Started by MRH in Magazine feedback: 📷 Read this issue! Share this: 📷 📷 📷 📷 Please post any comments or questions you have here. Want more articles like this one? Give us a like on the lower left 📷...
Magazine feedback 67 18 2,067 1779916792
Advice on purchasing old Athearn Gunderson container cars

Started by Murball in Locos and rolling stock: Hello all, I'm looking for advice on purchasing an old blue box Athearn 5 car set. Photos below. I'm assuming it's all plastic body, although there seems to be a weight added above each truck. My...
Locos and rolling stock 30 3 825 1779915871
Rio Grande - Tennessee Pass ‘78

Started by ezlyamuzd66 in Journals/Blogs: 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 I thought I’d start this blog to keep a record of my slow but consistent progress on my layout I’ve attached my initial layout design but have already...
Journals/Blogs 415 20 16,423 1779912205
Cleaning locomotive wheels

Started by Rick Beatty in Operation and maintenance: Just curious what everyone here uses to clean the wheels on locomotives. I know that some just use paper towels and IPA on a section of track while others step up to a microfiber cloth. Then there...
Operation and maintenance 22 1 352 1779911099
Bend Millwork Company

Started by SDL39FAN in Prototype railroading: I am interested in the Bend Millwork Company Evans 53 ft double plug door RBL's. I have found a few pictures and wondering if there are two different paint schemes or if some of the cars are faded so...
Prototype railroading 9 3 365 1779908933
Intermountain GPEX Milk Car

Started by Prrk4uk in Locos and rolling stock: I have been after one of the above cars for some time and when one popped up on a well known website I put a bid in and, thankfully won the item. When it arrived with me I found one of the...
Locos and rolling stock 3 1 104 1779906110
What can go wrong with the current push to 10 and 15k long trains

Started by Backshophoss101 in Prototype railroading: Most of us have noticed the class 1 RR's running trains in the 10 k to 15 k range of lenght.CPKC at present having fits with UP over train lenght, UP 10 k(10'000 ft) don't fit in 8 k passing siding...
Prototype railroading 44 0 828 1779906031
Walthers.com hacked?

Started by Rick Beatty in General discussion: Has anyone been able to get onto Walthers website? I have tried several browsers and my protection software gives a malicious website warning in Chrome and Firefox just doesn't work.
General discussion 42 4 1,042 1779904502
David Martin, RIP

Started by atsfcf7 in In Memoriam: David Martin, 65, a longtime standout in the Bryan/College Station, TX model railroad community, passed away on May 21st after a long battle with cancer. David was a past president of the BCS Model...
In Memoriam 0 1 152 1779900670
Barchester, Pennsylvania

Started by Robert (Robin) Mountenay in Journals/Blogs: I haven’t been a regular poster here, though I have shared pictures of several of the layouts I’ve built, including my latest, Barchester. This layout depicted a central Pennsylvania...
Journals/Blogs 792 47 38,600 1779895853
Siskiyou Line 2: The railroad that grows - part 2

Started by MRH in Magazine feedback: 📷 Buy this issue! Share this: 📷 📷 📷 📷 Please post any comments or questions you have below. ◄ Back to issue home page 📷 Want more articles like this one?...
Magazine feedback 9 14 377 1779893470
Make "View as Categories" option stick?

Started by wjstix in MRH forum help: The default for the MRH Forum is the listing of all the most recent posts drawn from all the different categories. You can click on View as Categories on the top and the category headings come up (in...
MRH forum help 2 1 71 1779893102
Lot's of information about me and my next layout

Started by Kevin Parson in General discussion: I just posted this video to YouTube where I discuss my answers to the Lance Mindheim questions of layout design. I ended up sharing a lot about my goals in the hobby and about my design for...
General discussion 13 10 492 1779890601
Help with pairing turnouts in the yard (operate as one or individually)?

Started by trainzluvr in General discussion Operations Yard Turnouts: Trying to figure out which turnouts in my yard (if any) I should pair together so they operate as one. Here's the yard detail of my trackplan with highlighted turnouts that I'm considering. ...
General discussion Operations Yard Turnouts 24 0 301 1779888785
N Scale Runaway

Started by justjames in Track and electrical/DCC: Greetings, I purchased a Kato U30C at the local trainshow yesterday. It had been converted to DCC by the previous owner. CV8 = 36 so that reads to be a DCC Concepts decoder. My command...
Track and electrical/DCC 13 1 341 1779885720
Cracked gears

Started by Bernd in Locos and rolling stock gears: I know many of us have had or are having this problem. Cracked gears on your axles. I'm hoping to come up with a fix that is easy to do for those that don't have a lathe or access to...
Locos and rolling stock gears 174 4 21,437 1779876297
What's New Demo

Started by Laurie in General discussion: 🎬 Laurie Australia
General discussion 15 8 559 1779872900
HO Southern RR

Started by Lirrlirr in Journals/Blogs: I have a blog in the railwire, never started one here. I switched from N to HO about 5 years ago…… I model a fictional portion of Southern in the southern WV / western VA panhandle / northeast TN...
Journals/Blogs 276 69 19,381 1779857282

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