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Had to have some hobos for one of my G scale box cars. Put one sitting in the doorway, one sitting on the roof and on sitting on the box inside. Now all my scales have hobos in or on one of the boxcars. Cool.

I really love this GE U50 engine. It is larger than I thought would be but still smaller than a DD40. Great looking engine, great sound. This is probably my 6th Athearn engine and they all sound great and perform great.

Bringing back my 1970's vintage HO train set and getting it in running order wouldn't be complete without an "Engineer's Hat!" My grandkids think I'm just a funny ole dude. I like to think I'm an ole fart having fun!

When installed correctly, the lighting kit does a great job in spreading the light evenly throughout the car. However, aligning the light with the lens required me to add a shim below the light to raise it up to meet the edge of the lens right under the roof of the car, else the light would miss the lens entirely and look awful in the car.

I loved this loco the first time I saw it online, but was just a little expensive, but I forgot that I had coupons for prior purchases and I redeemed them, and I have only one word for this beautiful locomotive and that is ‘WOW’!

Great locomotive! Bought it for the chassis as I had a non-DCC unit in Pennsy. Was able to swap the bodies easily so now I have my DCC Pennsy and a non-DCC Milwaukie. Sound is good and I can run it with the sound in DC or DCC.

Looks just like the real thing. Having been in Silverton on the train or ATVing many times, I know just how the depot looks. I did however use JTT embossed pattern sheets, wood roof shingles, for the roof in place of the paper shingles. Looks way better. Used pictures from the internet for reference. Many views to look at.

This was bought, because I grew up seeing these in I80 , and I 90. In the 1960's. Brown express used these tractors as well. Seen alot on Hey 69 in Belmond, Ia.

WHEN YOU RUN THIS ITEM IN THE FUTURE YOU NEED SEPERATE POWERED A UNITS.THE AS DELIVERED WAS 1 A AND 2 B UNITS. WITHIN 18 MONTHS THE NP BOUGHT EXTRA A UNITS SO THEY DID NOT HAVE TO TURN THE POWER TO CHANGE FROM EAST TO WEST RUNNING. THEY RAN THAT WAY UNTIL THE LOWEY PAINT SCHEME WAS USED IN 1954. SANDERS BOOK 2 HAS ALL THE DETAILS

I was trying to kitbash a shed that is located in the Durango yard in Colorado. I thought the Pikestuff enginehouse kits would be perfect. The parts in the kits fit together very well and the price point is great. The difficulty I had was trying to figure out exaclty how things go together. The instructions are vague at best. I watched a few you tubes and put a little creativity to use. When I finished, the shed was about as close to creating what I wanted without scratchbuilding it.

Beautiful locomotive, installed a 21pin Loksound v5 decoder. These stealth series locomotives are truly plug and play, just dropper in a decoder, the preinstalled speakers sound nice, no crackling/vibrations. Little bit of programming and this locomotive is running great!

Hey Joe, I received the International Dump truck, wrapped it up for a retirement gift.. Great job! Awesome model.. Great communication with your business.. Fast shipping and packaging. Thumbs up!! Thank you.. I will come back soon! Tony

Exceptional car! Nice clear paint and the decorating in the interior makes the car much more prototype, It runs very smoothly and the lighting and finger touch control are very nice. It is easy to add figures to really make the interior come alive.

More than pleased that this item arrived without damage! Previously ordered same item from different vendor at least twice and both had to be returned because they were cracked upon delivery.

I have four Christmas scheme coaches from the first run, so I was thrilled when I saw Broadway Limited was going to expand this line. The new cars have better lighting than the last run though the paint matches perfectly. I'm happy to have them!

I rode the NP North Coast Limited a number of times in my youth, about 75 years ago, between St Paul MN and Mandan ND, but never in this car. Lots of nostalgia anyway.

Great rail cleaning car, all made of brass. Good value and easy set-up for cleaning all tracks of my lay-out. This heavy brass-cleaning car has everything to operate and suggest a proper large engine for traction.