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A 242A1 locomotive and standard gauge track at some model railway scales. This page lists the most relevant model railway scale standards in the world. Most standards are regional, but some have followers in other parts of the world outside their native region, most notably NEM and NMRA.
Louisville and Nashville Railroad: 10: 5030–5039: Manufacturers Railway: 3: 251, 252, 254: Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago: 1: 4: Missouri Pacific Railroad: 62: 1530–1554, 1356–1392 #1530 was the first MP15 built; renumbered by UP as 1330–1392 between 1986 and 1993. [6] North Louisiana and Gulf Railroad: 4: 42–45 ...
Another thing Model Railroader had was their own model railroad layout, the Milwaukee, Racine and Troy, which was located on the second floor of the Kalmbach Media offices in Waukesha (the original was located on the 3rd floor of the old offices at 1027 N. 7th Street which was in operation from 1975 to 1989 [6]).
One of the smallest (Z scale, 1:220) placed on the buffer beam of one of the largest (Live steam, 1:8) model locomotives. Rail transport modelling uses a variety of scales (ratio between the real world and the model) to ensure scale models look correct when placed next to each other. Model railway scales are standardized worldwide by many ...
In 1960, the company purchased the assets of the defunct Varney Scale Models and began manufacturing model trains and accessories under the name Life-Like in 1970. In 2005 the parent company, Lifoam Industries, LLC, chose to concentrate on their core products and sold their model railroad operations to hobby distributor Wm. K. Walthers. Today ...
EMC S/N 651 (built May 1937): Youngstown and Northern Railroad #202, to Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroad #408 in April 1946, to Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railroad #408, then finally to the Sabine River and Northern Railroad as #408 before being preserved in the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri.
North Missouri Railroad: Missouri Southeastern Railway: SLSF: 1891 1898 Cape Girardeau, Bloomfield and Southern Railway: Missouri Southern Railroad: MS 1886 1941 N/A Missouri Valley Railroad: CB&Q: 1867 1870 Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad: Missouri Valley Park Railroad: MVP 2003 2010 Missouri and Western Railway: SLSF: 1875 ...
Perhaps one of the earliest examples of the RS3m is the former Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad's RS3m fleet. Built in the early 1950s by ALCO, the Katy had them rebuilt in the late 1950s by ALCO competitor, EMD, who rebuilt them with GP9 long hoods to make room for the larger EMD 567 prime movers .