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I spent 35 years working for Burlington Northern Santa Fe before I retired in 2019, and I've been building model railroads almost as long as I worked on the real ones. After watching countless friends and acquaintances try to get into this hobby only to give up in frustration, I wanted to put togeth …

I've spent three decades modeling Great Northern and Northern Pacific in HO scale, so when my buddy Hans from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum started raving about TT scale trains, I figured he'd lost his marbles. Why would anyone abandon the massive selection of HO for some oddball scale I barely …

I spent 35 years working the real iron for Burlington Northern Santa Fe before retiring, and I can tell you that the vintage O gauge trains value question gets asked at every train meet I attend. Guys walk up to tables with shoeboxes full of their dad's old Lionels, hoping they're sitting on a goldm …

I spent 35 years working for Burlington Northern Santa Fe before hanging up my lantern in 2019. In all that time running real trains, I never imagined I'd end up spending just as much energy wiring up the miniature versions in my Duluth basement. But here I am, and honestly? Installing DCC decoders …

I spent 35 years working the real iron for Burlington Northern Santa Fe before hanging up my lantern in 2019. My basement workshop in Duluth is dedicated to HO scale recreations of Great Northern and Northern Pacific operations from the transition era. But here's the thing: if I were starting fresh …

Gerry Hoffmann spent 35 years working for Burlington Northern Santa Fe before retiring in 2019, and he's been modeling railroads almost as long as he worked on the real ones. Based out of his basement workshop in Duluth, he specializes in HO scale recreations of Great Northern and Northern Pacific o …