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Tony Koester receives service award at St. Louis RPM

Walthers HO scale Spartan cab EMD SD70

Rapido HO scale drop-bottom gondola

Brennan’s Model Railroading Natural Sand

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A fan of the ’Scoggin

Scenery with shop rags

Build an HO scale VENTILATED BOXCAR • Prototype plans from the April 1962 issue of Model Railroader inspired this modeling project

The Santa Fe in eastern Illinois • This HO scale layout depicts the months leading up to the 1995 merger that created Burlington Northern Santa Fe

Ask why, not how • Consider the purpose of the railroad you’re modeling

DONNER PASS 1941 • Books and field trips inspired an Eastern modeler to depict the West

3 EASY BRIDGE WEATHERING TIPS • Using readily available products to make realistically rusty steel structures

Union Pacific’s Echo Canyon

Saying goodbye to an old friend

Trackside Photos

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