Trains: Set B Stage Eight

My son Theo filmed crashes of his HO scale model trains. I edited the footage. Our first collaboration.

This is a new Athearn SW1500 that will become CR #9516.

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The period from the 1890s to the mid-1950s is generally considered the “golden era” of passenger rail travel in America.  It was a time of celebrated locomotives and luxurious passenger service, a time when rail technology saw its greatest advances and railroads became the nation’s favored mode of transportation.   These glory years come alive in American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated, 1889–1971.  For this volume, author and illustrator Ma… More >>

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A cookbook approach to creating scenery like an expert that delivers predictable results every time. Teaches how to design, build, model, and finish backgrounds, mountains, hills, trees, bushes, water, dirt, and much more. Features detailed photos, techniques, and product information…. More >>

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The Underground Railroad Set: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations

This is my channel intro, my channel has a thing for everyone! This video shows a few clips of my HO scale model train and a few clips of my fire alarms and a clip of some service I have done the last couple of months. Hope everyone enjoys my channel!

• Use with all railroad or race track layouts or other scenery projects
• Realistic colors, light, airy foliage
• Assembled and ready to “plant”
• Individually handmade, branches can be easily bent to change shapes
• Detailed trunk, fuller more realistic leaves and branches

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Indispensable to travelers in Japan and Europe, electric-powered bullet trains offer incomparable benefits: chiefly a relatively quiet, high-speed mode of mass transportation with low environmental impact. This colorful book examines the history, current use, and technology of these sleek trains, the fastest of which reach speeds of nearly 200 miles per hour. Noted train historian and author Brian Solomon also takes readers on a tour of high-speed passenger lines in… More >>

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My new Bowser – Stewart Guilford Maine Central U25B. 12/19/09

• Eight-wheel drive
• LED headlight
• Directional lighting
• RP25 wheel contours
• E-Z Mate Mark II couplers

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