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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …