I had a blast running my SPC 2-6-0 over the weekend. This loco has an RC system for the throttle, reverser, and whistle.

I was able to achieve a nice, steady, slow run and was quite happy to get a solid run in for an hour with just a few stops for water to be sure things were good in the boiler.

Drone image of the upper loop of the mainline and some of a siding that is being built for more customers.

You can see a video from the drone with a train running:

youtu.be/dfX_Gl13Mrs

The Miniature Railroad’s story began in 1919 with a man named Charles Bowdish of Brookville, PA. Originally a holiday display on the second floor of his house, it moved to the Buhl Planetarium in 1954, and ultimately found its final home at Carnegie Science Center in 1992.

My father was eighteen years old when he built this inch and a half scale Milwaukee Road GP9 out of wood and metal. There were no scale drawings available at the time for this venerable locomotive, so dad (as I did) would always be found trackside or riding on the local patrol. While dad rode the patrol, he would take measurements of the GP9 and notes which would aid in building this massive EMD GP9. Pa is eighty five now and still building large trains, not this large however, garden railroad size.

The Miniature Railroad’s story began in 1919 with a man named Charles Bowdish of Brookville, PA. Originally a holiday display on the second floor of his house, it moved to the Buhl Planetarium in 1954, and ultimately found its final home at Carnegie Science Center in 1992.

Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg is a spectacular Model World featuring many Land- and Cityscapes from around the world containing model trains, moving cars, ships and even a fully functional airport with starting and landing planes.

All of this is meticulously handcrafted to the smallest Detail.

Please view the photos in full resolution to see all the little Details and Scenes.

Also make sure to visit this wonderful World, whenever you are in Hamburg.

Photographed at the Royal Botanical Gardens' model train display

These are custom built and modified Sofue and Max Gray o Scale brass models I’ve painted and weathered and photographed. I hope some of my viewers enjoy some images of my Model Railroad endeavors in O Scale Model Railroading. A friend and I have built a sectional portable o scale model railroad that is roughly 60’ x 30’ that we exhibit. The trains are all 1/48 scale or a quarter inch is one foot. Unlike o gauge toy trains we build and model in 2 rail scale much like smaller scales we strive for the most authentic miniatures.

Dampflok der Baureihe 24, der Deutschen Bundesbahn.

Als »Steppenpferd« wurde die Lok deshalb bezeichnet,

weil sie vor allem im Flachland eingesetzt worden ist.

Hier als H0-Modell von Fleischmann.

Steam locomotive of the Class 24, of the Deutsche Bundesbahn.

The locomotive was called a "steppe horse" because it was mainly used in the lowlands.

Here as an H0 model from Fleischmann.

The Miniature Railroad’s story began in 1919 with a man named Charles Bowdish of Brookville, PA. Originally a holiday display on the second floor of his house, it moved to the Buhl Planetarium in 1954, and ultimately found its final home at Carnegie Science Center in 1992.

Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg is a spectacular Model World featuring many Land- and Cityscapes from around the world containing model trains, moving cars, ships and even a fully functional airport with starting and landing planes.

All of this is meticulously handcrafted to the smallest Detail.

Please view the photos in full resolution to see all the little Details and Scenes.

Also make sure to visit this wonderful World, whenever you are in Hamburg.

All of this is meticulously handcrafted to the smallest Detail.

Sun is setting over a sleepy shunting yard in Esslingen, Württemberg. The old, unsuspecting nightwatchman just started his rounds. Not knowing there is an unscrupulous crook around the next corner. How will this encounter end?

After seeing www.flickr.com/photos/thomas_reincke/52972245863/in/datep... posting his beautiful Württemberg Guterwagens/boxcars I wanted to post my own rendition. I've also got my hands on some dark green 1x2 tiles in the Lego online store and was finally able to build a boxcar in dark green. The techniques used in the design are much similar to my boxcars for cattle but I had to find a way to make the sides without the 2x4 and 2x3 tiles which are either not available in dark green or in case of the first more expensive than gold. After some puzzling I found a - very parts intensive @Nick ;) - solution and this afternoon I took an hour to create this small diorama.

The boxcar is Epoche 1 and based on this Marklin model: rlp.museum-digital.de/object/60607

I’m probably going to use it as the first car for an upcoming Bavarian freight train/guterzug.

Ice skate for brake idea comes from www.flickr.com/photos/habricks

Let me know what you think, as always much appreciated!

Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg is a spectacular Model World featuring many Land- and Cityscapes from around the world containing model trains, moving cars, ships and even a fully functional airport with starting and landing planes.

All of this is meticulously handcrafted to the smallest Detail.

Please view the photos in full resolution to see all the little Details and Scenes.

Also make sure to visit this wonderful World, whenever you are in Hamburg.

Modeltrains meetup.

Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg is a spectacular Model World featuring many Land- and Cityscapes from around the world containing model trains, moving cars, ships and even a fully functional airport with starting and landing planes.

All of this is meticulously handcrafted to the smallest Detail.

Please view the photos in full resolution to see all the little Details and Scenes.

Also make sure to visit this wonderful World, whenever you are in Hamburg.

When I saw this train along U.S. 50 west of Mcarthur in Vinton County, Ohio, I was reminded of Lampy's years as an engineer.

Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg is a spectacular Model World featuring many Land- and Cityscapes from around the world containing model trains, moving cars, ships and even a fully functional airport with starting and landing planes.

All of this is meticulously handcrafted to the smallest Detail.

Please view the photos in full resolution to see all the little Details and Scenes.

Also make sure to visit this wonderful World, whenever you are in Hamburg.

Model Railroad

Along with the actual locomotive and train set, this antique Lionel collection also came in the original packaging. Its amazing to think that these cardboard boxes have lasted 65 years.

Four modeltrains home on my railway.

Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg is a spectacular Model World featuring many Land- and Cityscapes from around the world containing model trains, moving cars, ships and even a fully functional airport with starting and landing planes.

All of this is meticulously handcrafted to the smallest Detail.

Please view the photos in full resolution to see all the little Details and Scenes.

Also make sure to visit this wonderful World, whenever you are in Hamburg.

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This is a HO scale Athearn Collectibles model of and AMD-103 lettered for Amtrak #139. This unit comes DCC ready and has a TCS decoder.

Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg is a spectacular Model World featuring many Land- and Cityscapes from around the world containing model trains, moving cars, ships and even a fully functional airport with starting and landing planes.

All of this is meticulously handcrafted to the smallest Detail.

Please view the photos in full resolution to see all the little Details and Scenes.

Also make sure to visit this wonderful World, whenever you are in Hamburg.

A freight train is running on the mainline of my garden railroad. In the center of the consist were these three USA Trains boxcars, all custom weathered. With the Reading RR boxcar crossing the bridge lettered "Reading Lines" I just had to get a combo shot.

Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8

Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg is a spectacular Model World featuring many Land- and Cityscapes from around the world containing model trains, moving cars, ships and even a fully functional airport with starting and landing planes.

All of this is meticulously handcrafted to the smallest Detail.

Please view the photos in full resolution to see all the little Details and Scenes.

Also make sure to visit this wonderful World, whenever you are in Hamburg.

Extensive track layout and free rides around the park for kids, even big kids (parents)

All trains are built and run by their owners, quite an engineering feat.

Die Baureihe 96 der Deutschen Reichsbahn,

ehem. Gt 2×4/4 der Königlich Bayerischen Staats-Eisenbahnen (K.Bay.Sts.B.)

Hier ein H0[1:87]-Modell von Rivarossi

Otter Creek and Ripton #1 hauls the mixed through Ripton gorge. On30 model railroad featured in Great Model Railroads 2018

For 'Window Wednesday'. 'Cause it's far too wet to go out today to capture big ones, and nobody said they had to be real ;-))))

Réseau DB Schrottplat

Holiday Model Railroad

A Chicago and North Western class E2 drifts east from Union Terminal to the Fleming engine facility in June of 1936. The crew has left the train consist at Union Terminal for another locomotive to continue the journey to the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

CNW #647 is an E2 class 'Pacific' 4-6-2 built in 1923 by the American Locomotive Company. It was designed for fast passenger service and regularly touched the 100 mph mark on its journey between Chicago and the Twin Cities. The model is a Pacific Fast Mail brass unit that has been heavily modified to improve both its running qualities as well as its appearance. A Tsunami II sound decoder and keep alive circuit has been installed in the tender and it was custom painted and weathered by Mark Guiffre.

Photograph and model by Nate Pierce of DeForest, Wisconsin. Visit the HO scale NAPM club on-line at www.napmltd.org.

Delmar, Delaware. This shows maybe a tenth of the layout of train track etc they have. Even if you don't care for trains you just look at it and say I have got to have one of these.