The Randall Museum in San Francisco hosts a large HO-scale model model railroad. Created by the Golden Gate Model Railroad Club starting in 1961, the layout was donated to the Museum in 2015. Since then I have started automatizing trains running on the layout. I am also the model railroad maintainer. This blog describes various updates on the Randall project and I maintain a separate blog for all my electronics not directly related to Randall.
2025-03-17 - New Dome Car for the Mainline Passenger Train
Category RandallCourtesy of Jim, we have a new Walthers Proto dome car on the automated Mainline Passenger train:
The new dome car is at the end since it is also an “observation” car, with some nice details:
The car is a Walthers Proto, with body-mounted Kadee couplers, metal wheels, and it has a decent weight to it. After installing the car, I’ve tried the automation a handful of times and it seemed very stable. It’s a great addition to the fleet!