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When to stop and sell it all off?

Started by rideupjeep in General discussion: I turn 86 shortly and am debating if it is time to sell it all off so the wife doesn't have too. Any opinions? My layout is 14x44 and is jam packed, been a model railroader for 75 years.
General discussion 53 2 1,049 1783701807
Let's See A Model Of... July, 2026 Edition

Started by Kevin Parson in General discussion: 📷
General discussion 69 2 1,483 1783701806
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 91 8 4,440 1783701637
Has anyone ever tried Accurail "Unit couplers"?

Started by Michael Tondee in Locos and rolling stock: As I'm getting back into things with the layout, one of the first things I've chosen to work on is my Accurail USRA 55 ton coal hoppers. I have 23 of them and my original intention was to keep them...
Locos and rolling stock 3 0 5 1783700486
"Free" shipping threshold has risen.

Started by Michael Tondee in General discussion: I know I've been absent from the hobby and not around here for a few months but color me completely surprised that my go to mail order dealers threshold for "free" shipping has gone up from...
General discussion 17 2 387 1783699566
Dummy DCC locomotive set-up questions

Started by Distracted Perfectionist in Track and electrical/DCC: I’m running an NCE PowerCab throttle on my HO layout, I am aware that this is limited to a 2 Amp output and is nominally stated to handle either 2-3 or 3-4 sound locos depending on where you read...
Track and electrical/DCC 10 0 158 1783698901
A crazy idea I can't escape: SPSF

Started by Michael Tondee in General discussion: Every since I got weak and bought a Kodachrome SPSF GP40-2, I keep thinking about updating the time frame of the Island to the 1980's. The main thing to do would be switching out locos and rolling...
General discussion 39 4 724 1783698321
Another Brass Loco - SD40X - No Paint

Started by Ken Meade in Locos and rolling stock: After getting my previous order for the painted SD40X canceled by Resource Rail more than likely for a preferred customer, I found another seller of the model but unpainted. This model looks kinda...
Locos and rolling stock 0 1 12 1783697314
The Mysteries of Vintage Brass....

Started by Mark in Oregon in Locos and rolling stock: As kind of a "piggyback" on to my post regarding the AHM Pacific; had an eerily similar experience just the other day with this model: 📷 📷 When I got...
Locos and rolling stock 3 2 40 1783696950
Kadee Couplers

Started by aquakiwi in General discussion: I have these Kaydee couplers fitted to some rolling stock, I brought them by mistake. They are No 118. They are really hard to uncouple. 📷
General discussion 29 1 1,055 1783694014
Posting videos on the forum

Started by Rick Beatty in MRH forum help: Is the only way to put a video in a post to upload it from YouTube? If you can upload video files from your computer can you use other sharing services like Imgur?
MRH forum help 12 0 129 1783693236
Martian Rails

Started by anteaum2666 in Journals/Blogs Micro Layout: I got this micro layout base for free at a recent train show. I'm going to update it to a futuristic railroad on Mars and take it to train shows for the kids to run. I'll document my micro layout...
Journals/Blogs Micro Layout 35 14 859 1783689973
My Fictional Southern Railway Line

Started by Sauced07 in Journals/Blogs: I don't think I have posted a drawing or plan of my layout. I'm not an artist or computer person so this is all I have. I have spoken about my layout elsewhere but figured I would keep some...
Journals/Blogs 132 13 2,952 1783689651
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 139 4 3,326 1783689294
HOn2.5 “Occotillo & Lost Mesa RR”

Started by ezlyamuzd66 in Journals/Blogs: 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷
Journals/Blogs 12 18 312 1783688263
What’s on your workbench? July 2026

Started by Eric Hansmann in General discussion Workbench: We have passed the halfway point of the year. Many thanks to all the modelers who contributed their photos and notes to this monthly discussion thread. I hope the works have inspired readers to move...
General discussion Workbench 57 4 2,257 1783688167
Dutch Country Conrail

Started by Mitchell Schuessler in Journals/Blogs Reading Railroad Operations Planning: I figured this would be a good place for a supplemental blog to my article “Dutch Country Conrail” in the April 2025 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman. I have a few threads floating...
Journals/Blogs Reading Railroad Operations Planning 258 15 9,771 1783687934
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 313 5 10,364 1783680013
It's official - Run like a Dream: Locomotives is done!

Started by joef in General discussion: UPDATE: The ebook version of the full book is now available for download on the MRH Store: https://store.mrhmag.com/store/p215/ebook/run-like-a-dream-locomotives.html If you want to get...
General discussion 61 30 1,692 1783677430
Musings on a Switching layout...which got outta hand (was "Chicago Switching Layout")

Started by Windswept Rails in Dream and design Switching Layout chicago street running industrial: Hi everyone, this is my first post (and a long one sorry!), but I have seen posts on here as a non-member and it's been invaluable for my research. I'm based in Scotland, so I can only use...
Dream and design Switching Layout chicago street running industrial 310 9 11,028 1783670433
The Big Boy on the NS Harrisburg Line

Started by Ed Kapuscinski in Prototype railroading: Caught the spectacle at Newport PA 🎬
Prototype railroading 2 2 128 1783661367
HO Scale Lumber

Started by remhed in Scenery and structures: I am looking for ideas and advice on how to model HO scale lumber. I have a lumber yard with the Walthers kit on my layout, and I want to fill the racks of the lumber sheds with various sizes of...
Scenery and structures 15 1 323 1783659373
Storing Goo

Started by Rick Beatty in General discussion: I always had a problem storing CA until I got some tips on here about using silica gel in the container to keep it from hardening. I am hoping someone has a tip to store Walthers Goo to keep that...
General discussion 7 2 306 1783653608
A novel 16.5 mm shelf layout idea and experiment.

Started by Andy Reichert in Dream and design Shelf Layout Passenger Trains HO 00: Could this work? I'm about to try. Building a passenger oriented shelf layout along a 56 ft outdoor back yard fence. One that could be used (with lots of imagination) to operate as several...
Dream and design Shelf Layout Passenger Trains HO 00 17 3 466 1783647908
MRH Online TOC Index

Started by Bill Brillinger in MRH magazine help: Visit the online MRH TOC Index today! INDEX LAST UPDATED: June 19, 2026 This index replaces the original MRH Table of Contents Index with a fully searchable, mobile friendly, online...
MRH magazine help 94 11 31,802 1783647022
More C855 UP from Track Level - Video

Started by Ken Meade in Locos and rolling stock: Track Level Look a the Union Pacific C855
Locos and rolling stock 0 0 29 1783646543
Here's a fun one... travel planning, RR museums and train shops along I-90?

Started by DIamondback in General discussion: I was just thinking on some things as I plan the relocation (Seattle, WA to Fort Wayne, IN), and found myself frustrated by the haze of forty years' memory on the kitschy tourist traps, diners that...
General discussion 31 4 389 1783640621
AHM "brass" ATSF 4-6-2

Started by Mark in Oregon in Locos and rolling stock: The "Brown Book" states this engine is a "poor runner", and the experience with the example I have certainly bears this out. I tried everything I could think of to improve the...
Locos and rolling stock 13 12 488 1783637599
1974 period collection

Started by Deemiorgos in General discussion: These will be the eight cars used for my inglenook. All have the ACI labels/plates on them. I'll turn these images into cards for shuffling. I have a auto carrier, but is too long for inglenook...
General discussion 168 6 18,899 1783634465
The ongoing making and remaking of a branch line terminus, and stories...

Started by Deemiorgos in Journals/Blogs: This ongoing project started at the beginning of 2013. 📷 and was put on hiatus from March 2013 📷 to December 2016. ...
Journals/Blogs 434 4 62,278 1783634359
Industries in Augusta, Maine

Started by Ben in Prototype railroading: In Augusta there is (or was) a propane dealer that had a spur off the old MEC Lower Road (422 Riverside Dr, Augusta, ME 04330). Per railroad.net, they did receive tank cars of propane at one time....
Prototype railroading 107 1 2,103 1783633657
Running Peco turnouts with MTB motors mounted on top of layout

Started by vinceg in General discussion: I have an application where I want to automatically control Peco turnouts with MTB motors that are mounted on the surface of the layout (disguised in some way TBD). My question is about the strength...
General discussion 4 0 167 1783627391
Electrical Impulses: DCC dual power breaker: 1

Started by MRH in Magazine feedback: 📷 Read this issue! Share this: 📷 📷 📷 📷 ARTICLE SHOPPING LIST Momentary, push-to-make buttons on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4ltORVx ($6 per 12 / ~50 cents ea.) --or--...
Magazine feedback 11 13 407 1783627235
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 183 5 4,166 1783626858
prepping sagebrush tree armatures?

Started by David Emery in Scenery and structures Trees: I've been reviewing tree techniques. I see the recommendation to soak seafoam/"Super Tree" armatures in matte medium. But does the same thing apply to sagebrush armatures?...
Scenery and structures Trees 14 0 321 1783625053
Sources for kit instructions pages

Started by CVmike in Scenery and structures: Looking for Laser Art instruction source a friend has a kit with a page missing.
Scenery and structures 1 0 83 1783624521
Tom Johnson's Cass County Railroad

Started by TomJohnson in Journals/Blogs: 📷 Hello! It has been a long time since I have posted anything here. I had a blog (journal) going several years ago under the L&IN and INRAIL theme that had a big following. That...
Journals/Blogs 1,273 69 104,480 1783618779
Splitrock Mining Celebrates the 250th Birthday

Started by splitrock323 in General discussion: 📷 📷 📷 📷 With so many engines being painted in patriotic colors for the USA 250th, many fans wondered what the Splitrock Mining Company had for the 4th? Well, after much thought...
General discussion 4 10 234 1783618623
HO Brass Tank Drive Locomotive

Started by Ken Meade in Locos and rolling stock: I'm looking at a brass locomotive on ebay and in the description it notes a, "tank drive". This is where the drive shafts to the trucks comes out each end of the fuel tank or the motor is...
Locos and rolling stock 16 3 377 1783611314
Parts falling off (from locomotives & rolling stock)

Started by Juanfran in Locos and rolling stock: The other day, I had my 60' Gunderson TBOX boxcar from Athearn Genesis in hands and I noticed a small, round black piece in the box. I thought it was some dust but the perfect round shape triggered...
Locos and rolling stock 71 7 1,407 1783610709
Weekly Photo Fun - Jul 5-11, 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 20 1 875 1783610147
C855 Pulling TOFC on the D&J Railroad

Started by Ken Meade in Locos and rolling stock: This beast of a locomotive doing what it does best. C855 in UP pulling TOFC
Locos and rolling stock 1 4 68 1783605170
Switchlist Software Discussion

Started by anteaum2666 in Operation and maintenance: I'd like to get people's impressions and experiences with different types of switchlist software. I have experimented with two different programs: Switchlist on the Macintosh, and JMRI on my...
Operation and maintenance 96 1 9,072 1783604800
Maryland Midland 2.0

Started by Nevin W. Wilson in Journals/Blogs: My previous version of the Maryland Midland was build in the attic of a farm house. We recently moved to a new town home that fortunately has a 18x23 finished attic so it will soon hold the new...
Journals/Blogs 204 7 11,648 1783600806
CSX West Isola - Modelling the US in the UK

Started by z4driver in Journals/Blogs: Hi all, I thought I'd put some posts up about my layout out that I'm currently building in a village called Pontybodkin here in North Wales, UK. Firstly, why, as someone from the...
Journals/Blogs 7 15 389 1783596059
Keystone Truck and Tractor Museum - Petersburg, VA Train Show

Started by Ken Meade in Hobby event notices: The Keystone show opens this Saturday at the truck and tractor museum. This will be our 6th year doing this show. There will be at least 5 modular clubs set up in the event hall of the museum for...
Hobby event notices 0 0 44 1783593938
Juicer question

Started by Sauced07 in Track and electrical/DCC: I have a double slip switch and I want to attach frog juicers. I can’t recall offhand what brand it is 📷 Are these the tabs to attach the wire from the juicer to? 📷
Track and electrical/DCC 17 2 332 1783592715
What If,...Designing a New Steam Locomotive Product??

Started by railandsail in Dream and design Steam Loco: What if you went to work for a model rr company, and was tasked with designing a new steam engine locomotive product? Are there changes from the state the art locomotives you would...
Dream and design Steam Loco 315 4 5,057 1783576504
Dehumidifier placement - good idea or not.

Started by MSutinen in General discussion: First, some background. My layout is in a room in the basement, closed on three sides, and about 50 feet from the single drain. I currently have a dehumidifier about 10 feet from the drain,...
General discussion 48 1 770 1783571098
Building Specialities/Cascade Drywall

Started by Craig Townsend in Scenery and structures: While I'm still working on my feed mill , I've been thinking about the last surviving industry of the Issaquah spur. This industry spur lasted until the line was closed by BNSF in 2009 when...
Scenery and structures 10 2 301 1783566088

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