Ask Trains.com January 2025| Start the year off with host Cody Grivno, as he addresses your questions about model railroading and 1:1 scale railroading too! This time, Cody handles inquiries related to designing and constructing switching layouts; historical insights on the rolling stock of the former Milwaukee, Racine, & Troy HO scale layout; using Firecrown Media’s online platform to research modeling and railroading publications; updating older freight cars with modern trucks and couplers; plus a wide array of other topics that viewers just like you are asking too!
Are you looking for more insights about model railroading, or do you have questions about full-size trains? We’d love to hear from you! Send us an email at: AskTrains@trains.com, or leave a question in the comment section below.
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Ask Trains.com is a regular video feature of Trains.com for magazine subscribers and Trains.com members, where editors answer the questions readers and viewers are asking.
Special guests can include editors and contributors from Model Railroader, Trains, Classic Toy Trains, Garden Railways and Trains.com.
Questions can be about any railroad or model railroading topic, including on the fan configuration on an SD45. These can include questions about railroad operating practices, railroad lantern manufacturer details, model locomotive details, and toy train transformers, among others.
Trains.com and Model Railroader Senior Editor Cody Grivno works through many of these questions, which are posted twice a week, each week, all year! See all our answers to questions online!
When will Trains shop return to stocking MR&T decals? Thanks.
A Question for a future Ask Trains. The historic cars for the MR&T were very interesting (I grew up in SP&S territory and am somewhat modelling some of that), What sort of Steam and Early Diesel power would have been used to go with the cars of the at era of the MR&T? With your emphasis on smaller layout projects would a steam era MR&T small layout be in the cards?
Cody,
Thanks for answering my question, I did forget to specify, I have boxcars, tank cars and flatcars that had the snap fit trucks that a friend gave to me a few months back, these are cars I would get at either Toys R Us or Lionel Playworld.
The MR CD published several years ago is searchable. It would be highly useful if the MR archive on line was searchable the same way. It’s really nice to type in a keyword and get a list of issues/articles related to that topic.