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Railroad Model Craftsman Extra Board With Mount Shasta looming in the background, a light freight powered by Southern Pacific Mikado 3227 crosses the Hotlum trestle to reverse direction on the Grass Lake Wye. Southern Pacific Shasta Route in HO Otis McGee/photo by Dan Munson Growing up in the 1950s, I occasionally “played with” trains. But, by my teens, my attention had turned elsewhere. Not until years later, in need of a distraction from the rigors that came with my career, did I return to model railroading. I was not particularly focused and, at the outset, I knew nothing about the gro...

Railroad Model Craftsman Extra Board Train 281, an empty unit coal train, pauses at the La Crosse depot for a crew change. The Milwaukee Road and Burlington Northern alternated coal trains and pooled U30Cs and wide-vision cabooses to run these trains between the Powder River basin in Wyoming and a power plant near Portage, Wis. Milwaukee Road on the Mississippi by Al Lesky/photos by Dan Munson Long a Midwestern fan favorite stretching from its namesake city across the prairies to the Pacific, The Milwaukee Road faded into the history books when it was acquired by Soo Line in 1986. I started w...