Books and Magazines

IN THE CURRENT ISSUE Extra Extra! Read All About It!Part 6: Some Finishing Touchesby Dennis Murphy Build A Small Town For Your Railroadby Loren Perry N Scale Railroad DepotKalamazoo (MI)by Thorsten Hambusch It’s 1995 on the Katahdin Valley...

Illinois Central: North of the Ohio River combines classic color photography from 50 photographers with well-researched text by Dave Oroszi and Kirk Reynolds. A terrific variety of images from the IC, including Chocolate & Orange E-Units, Green...

Take a tour of Chicago's Railroad Scene in 1970-71 with veteran railroad writer and photographer, George Hamlin. You'll visit Joliet, Griffith, Pullman Junction, Deval, Rondout, BN's (CBQ) Racetrack and, of course, several locations in downtown Chicago...

This beautiful all-color book features classic railroad photography in the Chicago area by award-winning author and photographer Robert P. Olmsted. It covers the periods between 1956-1966 and 1984-96, and includes B&O, CBQ, NKP and Grand Trunk...

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio—Illustrated Historical Reference is three books in one. First, it’s a history book that covers the development of the postwar railroad through the mergers of Gulf, Mobile & Northern, Mobile & Ohio, and The...

The area surrounding Allentown and Bethlehem was quickly transformed as seven colorful legacy lines came under Conrail control in 1976. Over the next 24 years, this industrial region of eastern Pennsylvania would go through its own transformation,...

Fourth in our Baltimore & Ohio series, we explore three divisions not part of the core routes connecting the East Coast and the western gateways of Chicago and St. Louis: The Buffalo Division (former Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh...

Altoona Action is a hardcover book featuring 30 years of railroading in and around the city of Altoona, Pennsylvania. Brilliant black & white and color photography, taken between the mid-1960s and the mid-1990s, presents the Pennsylvania...

Mike Bednar started his career in the 1960s on Lehigh Valley, running through Conrail and Reading & Northern into the 1980s. He knows railroading inside and out, from dispatching busy main lines to running heavy tonnage over the mountains. His...

A Railroad Life: On the Road with Mike Bednar, Volume 2 features the next 18 episodes of Mike Bednar’s famous railroad stories from TRP Magazine, richly illustrated with vintage photography. This beautiful 128-page hardcover book includes...

A Railroad Life: On the Road with Mike Bednar, Volume 1 features the first 24 episodes of Mike Bednar’s famous railroad stories from TRP Magazine, richly illustrated with vintage photography. This beautiful 128-page hardcover book...

Features: CRP&A Creative Photography Awards: SMOKESPECIAL— “Smoke” was the theme of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art’s 2025 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards. Countdown to Conrail: Part 3by VICTOR...

Features: Winter Storm Fern by Alex Mayes My Favorite Spot: The Reading’s East Penn Branch by Dale W. Woodland The Windsor and Sarnia Rail Tunnels by Stephen C. Host and Kenneth Borg Drift Busting on the Ontario Southland...

Special Feature Logging Inclines Another Way To Get The Logs Out Of The Woods —  by Jack Burgess  Features  A Tale of Three Civil Engineering Cars Three for one. — by John Campbell, MMR The...

Product News Locomotives & Rolling Stock Vehicles & Loads Structures, Scenery & more Books & more HO-Scale Reviews Recycled Early SD   from Rapido Trains Pride of the Wisconsin Central   from Broadway...

Features: Mike Rose’s Conrail Lehigh Line by BROOKS BENTZ - This HO layout captures the essence of Conrail operations in eastern Pennsylvania. A Guide to Conrail Eras by ED KAPUSCINSKI - Covering Conrail from the...

Every rail enthusiast has imagined it - climbing into the cab of a steam locomotive and pulling open the throttle, or sitting at a dispatcher’s console as trains race across a busy main line. With Tales of the Rails, you can come closer...

p>In Guide to Modeling Branch Lines, Tony Koester shows you how branch lines can offer heavy equipment and modern locomotives. Inspirational prototype branches range from webs of Appalachian coal lines to agriculture-based Midwestern branches to...

Features: Soo Line’s GP38-2 Fleet: Part One • by Martin Young EMD’s SW1001, Part 7: Reading • by Diesel Era Staff Departments: Rail News Books

Features: Metro-North Conductor Paul Morgan Retires by David Silver B&O RR Museum Unveils American Freedom Train Locomotive by Alex Mayes Jersey Arrows In Twilight by John Olejnik Central New England Farewell Run by Andrew...