Saturday, November 26, 2011

Trainfest 2011: Athearn HorizonHobbyTrains.com

Accurail's Trainfest Specials

A picture at left of one of the new Accurail steel reefers done up in Milwaukee colors for Trainfest I clipped off the Accurail site. I don't know much about the prototype this car based on. The Atlas site has a little chat on it.

I'll probably buy a few of these Milw cars and some of the PFE ones when they come out. I remember long lines of the PFE cars on the C&NW through Oak Park in the 60s.

Finding the Perfect Model Railroad Set | Model Railroad Blog

Finding the Perfect Model Railroad Set | Model Railroad Blog

A helpful link for Christmas time when people are searching for sets for their kids.

Rapido HO "The Canadian" Tour Blog

Rapido HO "The Canadian" Tour Blog:
This past Monday, November 7, 2011 Rapido made model railroad history by commissioning from Creaform to perform the first-ever 3D scan of a real MLW/ALCO FA locomotive: FPA4 #6765 at Exporail, Canada's national railway museum in Montreal, Quebec. Jason, Dan and I all were in attendance as were about 30 of our customers who came up to join in the day's events.


Rapido using the kind of technology that's made it the best of times to be a Model Railroader.

HorizonHobbyTrains.com - Trainfest 2010: Fox Valley Models

The Fox Valley Models guys at trainfest in Milwaukee. I've got a Hiawatha plus extra cars, a bunch of the seven post Boxcars, and three out of the four B&O Wagon Top cars. Amazing products and Lombard Hobbies has them at a nice discount.

I hope they do a C&NW 400. There logical ones to do it!

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Lombard Hobbies goes online

Hey, they're finally online here!

Congratulations to a great store on a great site. Wish you the best!