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Weathering includes blending subtle and heavy effects - grime, rust, soot, dirt - and doing it in a way that matches how prototype locomotives, freight cars, and other details acquire their aged appearance. Weathering Models from Jeff Wilson will...

Features: Journal Spotlight • Flying Yankee has a new home. Caltrain Goes All-Electric • by Kevin McKinney — Big changes in the Bay Area. Rocky Mountaineer’s Early Years • by Steve...

Special Feature Radio Control For HOn30—A Simple Approach • by Keith Pashina — Adventures in Locomotive Control. Features The Railroad Equipment of theYellow Aster Gold Mine • by Dan Quine —...

Features: Roadrailer Finale • by Ryan Crawford 2023 Locomotive Production • by Sean Graham-White Pan Am Railways GP40-2s: 500–519 • by Diesel Era Staff Departments: Rail News Books

Features Union Pacific in Cheyenne, Wyoming • by Travis Douthit — Backyard View to Union Pacific’s Overland Route. Steamtown in the 1960s • by Bill Robie — F. Nelson Blount and Steamtown. The...

Product News Locomotives & Rolling Stock Vehicles & Loads Structures, Scenery & more Books & more HO-Scale Reviews  A Legend Returns   from Athearn Roundhouse New Life for Train Set Classic   from Bachmann...

Features: Return to the Barchester Branch • by ROBERT MOUNTENAY — A proto-freelanced approach to a rural Pennsylvania branch line terminal. Pullman-Standard60’ Paper Service Cars: 7451 • by JAMES...

Bob Schmidt & Michael Caramanna From the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of California in the West to the Gulf of Mexico in the East, and from the U.S. Border in the North to the Yucatan Peninsula in the South, this new title features the passenger services of...

Jeremy F. Plant & Brian D. Plant Explore the changes over time that affected Guilford and its successor, Pan Am, from motive power and operations to the variations in name and ownership. Coverage in this volume is roughly divided between operations...

Product News Locomotives & Rolling Stock Vehicles & Loads Structures, Scenery & more Books & more HO-Scale Reviews  Beautiful in Black & White from Walthers Proto Tuxedo-Clad GP35 from Walthers...

Features: Lehigh Valley’s Final Chapter in N • by RON PAPIERCAVICH — A beautiful proto-freelanced take on the Route of the Black Diamond in N scale. Pullman-Standard60’ Paper Service Cars: 7452 • by...

Flock’s excellent camera skills captured Southwestern PA’s class 1s, short lines, industrials, and trolley lines. Coverage wasn’t limited to trains and motive power – it also includes equipment and structures, as well as...

Model Railroader's Guide to Designing Yards -- Softcover

Olev Taremae The Delaware Lackawanna Railroad's Alco power has ruled Northeast Pennsylvania for over 30 years. Using the best work from 13 photographers, this book chronicles the variety of Alco power powering trains since the Delaware-Lackawanna...

James Kinkaid and Ken Donnelly The conclusion to the three-part series! Featuring refrigerator cars, stock and tank cars and early piggyback equipment. Plus, express, milk, pickle cars, and more! 128 Pages, All Color

Kurt Reisweber Offers a grand scenic tour of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway across Virginia as it existed as a part of the Chessie System in the 1970s-‘80s. Many out-of-the-way locations in the Old Dominion are featured. Virginia’s C&O presence is...

Special Feature My HOn3 Chama Yard And Layout • by Chriss Stavroplos — A Successful Journey. Features Quincy Mining Company—Russell Snowplow • by Chuck Pomazal — Survivor.  The Devil Is...

Product News Locomotives & Rolling Stock Vehicles & Loads Structures, Scenery & more Books & more HO-Scale Reviews  Journey Through Time with SD40-2s from ScaleTrains Bay Window Beatuy Rock Island caboose from Tangent...

Features: Soo Line in Southern Indiana • by JOHN EMLEY — Rural scenery dominates this HO scale Soo Line secondary set in mid-1990s Indiana. Freight Car Upgrade with Photo-Etched Detail Parts • by STEVE...

Features: Journal Spotlight  CPKC’s “Final Spike Tour” Anthony Haswell, a Remembrance New Life for Detroit’s Michigan Central Station  The on-again, off-again Adirondack at 50 Celebrating Issue...