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Katy’s Tru-Color

My search for a red-painted Missouri-Kansas-Texas diesel locomotive was going nowhere, so I decided to ‘take the bull by the horns’ and create my own. The M-K-T (Katy) owned a number of GP40 locomotives, and a number of them still wore red paint well into the nineteen-seventies. Fortunately, Spring Creek…
Rail Road-Trip
Convert an old Athearn Caboose into an HO-scale Camera Car – Simply

When Polaroid first introduced their Cube Lifestyle Action Video camera, I couldn’t help but notice its suitability and easy adaptability for use on an HO-scale railroad. Its light weight (49 grams), cubical shape, and small dimensions of only 1.4 inches allow it to fit on most any HO-scale flat car. …
Eagle River Operations – January 2018
Kudos to CTI Electronics
kudos noun ku·dos \ˈkü-ˌdäs, ˈkyü-, -ˌdōs\ Popularity: Top 20% of words Simple Definition of kudos : praise or respect that you get because of something you have done or achieved Source: Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary More specifically, kudos to Tim at CTI Electronics. He not only sells a great product in…
Smooth Operators

Six talented model railroaders and experienced operators participated in the action during Eagle River Division’s operating session on Saturday, August 12th 2017. There were the usual derailments, problem couplers, and minor electrical issues that always seem to magically appear during an ops session, but they were infrequent, and nobody died.…