Features

Back in the day of the reign of the black diamond, these small rail carts moved the coal from the pick and shovel to the tipple and hopper. Randy Harvey [HARV] found this preserved mine car and shows us how they were constructed.

Randy Harvey [HARV] continues to bring us fascinating photo features of railroad equipment, and equipment of the industries the railroads served. Complimenting his previous walkaround of mine coal cars is this look at similar cars, this time with paint!

Burlington Northern donated this waycar (their term for a caboose) No. 10710 to Ranchester, Wyoming. Randy Harvey [HARV] took the time to shoot the old girl for us.

Sean Hadfield [WINDYSEAN] follows up his creation of Shipwreck! S.S. 'Lucky' with this scratchbuilding of North Freedom Depot.

I stopped in Cheyenne, WY for a couple of hours and took some photographs for you. This is one of the Merci Train gifts presented by France in gratitude for America's help in the First World War.

Sean Hadfield [Windysean] has shared his kitbashing and scratchbuilding with us before and now we see his latest creation - a shipwreck next to a railroad bridge.

Randy Harvey [HARV] carries a camera with him as he travels and both RailRoad Modeling and the KitMaker Network benefit from his eagle eye. Cheyenne, Wyoming's Big Boy 4004 is his latest find.

The Dartmouth Steam Railway, formerly known as the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, is a 6.7-mile (10.8 km) heritage railway on the former Great Western Railway branch line between Paignton and Kingswear in Devon, England.

Lineside structures come in many shapes and sizes. This oval concrete grain silo displays many interesting features.

Randy Harvey [HARV] carries a camera with him just for encounters like this - a classic grain silo. Staples of railroad income, granaries and silos make fascinating subjects.

A.T. & S.F. 643 is a 2-8-0 Consolidation restored at the Oklahoma Railway Museum.

Big trains - so long (pardon the pun) as they aren't blocking your highway, they are awesome to watch. Here's a train pulled by a parade of 12 locomotives.

Arizona's McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park features a preserved 2-6-0 Mogul-type steam locomotive as a display.

Randy Harvey [HARV] shot this walkaround of this North Pacific 0-6-0 yard goat at the Yellowstone County Museum.

McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park is a big park of railroad-themed fun in Scottsdale, near Phoenix, Arizona.

The Suffolk Seaboard Station Railroad Museum in Suffolk, Virginia, is a treat for railway historians and modelers, alike.

Modelers have been using twigs to represent trees since the first diorama. Gnarled twigs don't always seem to look like real trees. Or do they?

Fred Boucher [JPTRR] visited the NS museum at the corporate office in Norfolk, Virginia.

Sean Hadfield [windysean] saw a unique building in his home town and scratchbuilt it for his model railroad. He created a step-by-step narrative with photos and associated titles. Let's follow along as he builds this challenging architectural gem

Barry Price shares pictures of his exquisite scratch built rail gun "Siegfried" in 1/72 scale.