model trains

I keep seeing this website: activepowersports.com appear in my searches for various locos and rolling stock. Has anyone ever used this site before?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-_P6-vqvpE Part 2 of my 3 part series has been uploaded. Hope you guys are enjoying the progression of my modules. Part two is pretty fun but I promise that part 3 with have the most interesting content yet. Stay tuned!

Hi All, In the 1940's, these glass lined, air tight silos were a symbol of prestige throughout the Midwest. Then, they began to exhibit defects, especially in the conveyor systems. This, coupled with farm failures in subsequent decades, led to the familiar glossy blue silos symbolizing...

Okay, I'm showin' it off, here's some scenes and a cab ride from my Garden Railroad Open House last July 19th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2IBVEGo3Z0&hd=1 Enjoy!

This is one of the best HO Layouts I've seen in awhile! The Northern Minnesota Railroad Heritage Association (Northern Trackers) in Cross Lake, MN, have outdone themselves with this one. This layout has over 5 scale miles of track which winds through 9 small Northern Minnesota towns during the...

Hi, This is one of my recent projects: the English Electric Diesel Locomotive Class 1400 of CP (Portuguese Railways) in the standart orange/brown colour scheme, built for a customer. Portugal ordered a total of 50 Diesel Class 1400 locomotives from English Electric. The first bath of 10...

Hi, In order to commemorate "500 Likes" in my model trains page in just 13 months (!), I decided to produce a photo regarding this milestone. These are the models shown on the above photo: Plasser & Theurer 09-3x Stofexpress Dynamic Tamping Express Machine with integrated...

Hi, As this Kibri model was built for a friend, the following photos shows the model I built in my friend's layout: Regards, Ayala Botto Facebook: "Ayala Botto Model Trains" http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ayala-Botto-Model-Trains/100140160133220

Hi, I would like to introduce my self, saying I'm a railway model fan that produces my own models and modified others in order to produce diferent ones not available in shops. My scale is H0 and I use the Märklin (AC) system. So I transform all DC and DCC locomotives in order to work in my...

Check out this infographic we created about model trains. Trains are the oldest form of mechanical transport and often carry a sense of nostalgia for those riding in them or watching them. First created as a way to promote locomotive transportation to those who had not seen trains before...