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Good evening all, this is my first post on this site. I am in search of an HO scale Rapido MLW FPA-4. I have an analog layout, so DC only please. My first preference for roads would be the New York and Lake Erie FPA-4 (item #20031). Grand Canyon Railway (item #20027/20028), and Canadian...

Electrotren have produced a number of models of the Type 316 DL500A since 2006 and I have three of the contractors versions - RENFE had withdrawn the type by the mid nineties- but I wanted another one from private operator TECSA for my future layout to go with the VIAS, COMSA and AZVI locos I...

Modified brass ALCo with Stewart Hobbies chassis.

The Kalmbach book, "Model Railroader Cyclopedia-Volume 2: Diesel Locomotives" has drawings/plans of 70 significant diesel locomotives. Can anyone tell me which locomotives are covered by these drawings? Specifically I'm looking for the EMD GP-7 and F-7 and the ALCO FA-1, RS-1,2, & 3...

An FA-1 AB set sits quietly on the trestle just a few hundred metres from the summit after stalling out, and it will have to wait for a pair of GP9s to come from the helper base before it can continue