Guest Article By: World Famous Robert Anderson | Storing Rolling Stock

Most model railroaders have far more cars (rolling stock) and locomotives than they can possibly operate at once. One option is to simply store excess rolling stock and locomotives in boxes or on display shelves or cabinets. It is possible, however, to store all of your extra equipment and trains on tracks in a yard that may or may not be part of the visible operating portion of your model train layout.

Model Train | Baldwin DR-12-8-1500 | Centipede

These particular Baldwin diesel engines where unique as they where individually built… which mint “NO ASSEMBLY LINES”. This caused problems as each locomotive was sightly different causing havoc for maintenance guys.

Large scale model trains | 2-4-4T Steam locomotive | Forney

In 1861 Mathias Forney, a life long railroad man, designed and patented the first of a long line of Forney concept locomotives. The Forneys where special in that they came equipped with trailing trucks attached to their coal compartments.

O scale model trains | Pennsylvania 0880 Steam Locomotive | Lionel

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Built by Baldwin in 1919 the Pennsylvania 0-8-8-0 Steam Locomotives where considered in their time to be some of the most powerful reciprocating steam engines ever built.