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• Couplers: When You Know You've Graduated from Toys to Models

  by mike allred (AT&SF, WP) December 29, 2017
  Couplers: When You Know You’ve Graduated from Toys to Models By Mike Allred           My father was a model railroader.  He did not play with trains; he modeled them.  He did share his hobby with me, but in a limited sense.  That is...

• The Atlas Trainmaster in N scale: what an amazing model

  by mike allred (AT&SF, WP) October 15, 2017
  Atlas has released it's N scale model of the Fairbanks-Morse Trainmaster.  What a marvelous model locomotive!   It's been a long time coming for this engine.  Few modelers today even know who Fairbanks-Morse was, or that it's flagship product, the TrainMaster, was the heavyweight ch...
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