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Kato City of Los Angeles Passenger Set

April 27, 2011

Kato’s model of Union Pacific’s iconic City of Los Angeles passenger set is now out and available at hobby stores. Kato has modeled a 1954 version of the train and while the typical consist varied quite a bit depending on traffic, time of year, etc., etc. they include a good mix of cars that could …

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Franksville, Wisconsin Project Part 5: Painting Track

April 4, 2011
Franksville, Wisconsin Project Part 5: Painting Track

Atlas Code 55 track makes a big difference when you want to achieve a more realistic looking scale track. The smaller rail height and finer detail is a welcome change. However the rails and plastic ties needs some paint to help bring the colors in line and knock down all that shine. I use PollyScale …

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Fox Valley Models 1935 Hiawatha In Photos

March 17, 2011
Fox Valley Models 1935 Hiawatha In Photos

We received our FVM Milwaukee Road 1935 Hiawatha set this week and took some time to take a few photos of this special model. The first Hiawatha name train by the Milwaukee Road was dubbed the “Twin-Cities” service as it ran a daily 410 mile, 6-hour trip from Chicago to Minneapolis/St.Paul, Minnesota. Milwaukee Road brought …

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Fun in Nn3: Chris Schmuck’s Micro Mining Layout

March 7, 2011
Fun in Nn3: Chris Schmuck’s Micro Mining Layout

Lest you think we have a standard gauge bias here at M:160, we’d like to set the record straight right off the bat by confirming that we want to showcase all forms of 1:160 modeling.  So that includes narrow gauge modeling, especially when it’s this good. We’ve been fans of Chris Schmuck’s small layouts since …

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Franksville, Wisconsin Project Part 4: Cork and Track

February 27, 2011

So in Part 3 I showed how I create land contours on the “north” Franksville module (remember there are two modules that will make up Franksville, Wisconsin). For Part 4 we go back to the “south” module and add cork road bed from Midwest Products. The Midwest Products cork provides a roadbed foundation that I’ll …

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Franksville, Wisconsin Project Part 3: Land Contours

February 17, 2011
Franksville, Wisconsin Project Part 3: Land Contours

Getting into Part 3 of our series, we’ll talk about laying down pink construction foam and one of the techniques I use to create land contours. Here is the original Franksville single module that I previously built: The above module will now become the north franksville module. I needed to get it up and running …

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