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Packing Your N Scale Trains For Safe Shipment

Having previously received an improperly packaged order from a venue seller or another retailer, new buyers will often ask that their purchases be carefully packaged in order to prevent in transit damage and/or package wear.Rather than provide a lengthy (and frankly quite boring) explanation of the entire packing process, a better approach was take some [...]

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It's Been 150 Years Since America's 1st Transcontinental Railroad Was Completed

The 150th anniversary (sesquicentennial) celebration of the "Last Spike" ceremony that commemorated the completion of the "Pacific Railroad" (later called the "Overland Route"), America's First Transcontinental Railroad, occurs on May 10, 2019.Commencing in January 1863, heading east, the Central Pacific Railroad Company began laying track from Sacramento, California, while eighteen months later, in July 1865, the Union Pacific [...]

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Micro-Trains To Release Completely New Boeing Fuselage Train Car Set In 2019

Scheduled to arrive in March 2019, Micro-Trains Line has announced a completely new fuselage train transportation car set release.Micro-Trains Line BNSF Fuselage Transportation Sets Pre-Production ArtworkA first and second production run model is depicted at the top of the image.With factory printed deck details, enhanced decal sets, and laser cut collapsed grip fixtures boxes, depicting a different, contemporary [...]

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Micro-Trains To Re-Release Its Very Unique Southern Pacific Impact Car In 2018

Like the stock number 020 00 157 Union Pacific Impact Car that was announced in the February 2018 copy of The Micro-News, with the exception of the included interior load, the Micro-Trains® Line stock number 031 00 490 Southern Pacific Impact Car that was announced in the May 2018 copy of The Micro-News appears to be a re-run of a car that was originally [...]

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Micro-Trains Product and Packaging Variations Guide

This guide was designed to provide the key information needed to identify significant Kadee® Micro-Trains® and Micro-Trains® Line product and packaging variations. Compiled by Neville C. Wilson, when relevant, additional information is added to any material that has already been referenced. Also available online are " Micro-Trains: The "Standard by Choice" of Model Railroaders Around the World!", which documents the history of [...]

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Micro-Trains To Re-Release Its Very Unique Union Pacific Impact Car In 2018

With the exception of the included interior load, the Micro-Trains® Line stock number 020 00 157 Union Pacific Impact Car that was announced in the February 2018 copy of The Micro-News appears to be a re-run of a car that was originally released as part of the special run NSC 00-95 Union Pacific and Southern Pacific "Impact Cars" set [...]

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A Bitter 1894 Railway Workers Strike Culminated In Labor Day

While the vast majority of Americans enjoy a welcome day off from work on Labor Day, the "unofficial end of summer", unbeknown to many, a bitter strike and the bloody strife that ensued, culminated in the establishment of this federal holiday.Called the Progressive Era by historians, the period of time spanning the 1890s to the 1920s [...]

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Pullman Standard PS-2CD 4427 Covered Hopper

Even with Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company's passenger car designs and patents spun off to a separate company called Pullman Technology in 1982 (which was eventually sold to Canadian based Bombardier in 1987) and Pullman Standard's remaining railcar manufacturing plants and freight car designs and patents sold to Trinity Industries in 1984, American manufactured Pullman [...]

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Necessity Breeds Innovation: The Vert-A-Pac Railroad Auto Carrier

Aimed at reducing shipping costs and minimizing transport related damage a uniquely American railway innovation entered service in April 1970.The Vert-A-Pac Car Model Railroader Magazine Article October 1971Measuring 89' 4" long Vert-A-Pac automobile carriers transported thirty sub-compact cars in the same cubic space as conventional tri-level autoracks, which were designed to transport eighteen standard sized [...]

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An Engineering Marvel: The Schnabel Car

A very specialized piece of rolling stock, the Schnabel Car is a heavy railway transport vehicle that is designed to carry over-sized loads such as electric generators, oil refinery cracking towers, nuclear reactor vessels, and transformers over conventional rails. Initially patented on June 24, 1974, under United States Patent Number 3788237, the basic Schnabel Car design calls for a pair of [...]

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