Books and Magazines

IN THE CURRENT ISSUE Review: Rokuhan Z-Scale USRA 0-6-0by Thom Knapp Review: Jokari PWS Plus 001 Wire Stripperby Thom Knapp A City Above the Freigh-Tby David Gentry The Short & Nn3arrowBuilding the DSP&P #191by Preston Sands Extra Extra!...

IN THE CURRENT ISSUE Extra Extra! Read All About It!Build Your Own Layout, Along With Me!by Dennis Murphy Planning & Constructing SceneryOn my Denver South Park & Pacific RailroadPart 2by Preston Sands The Badger Midwestern RailroadArticle by...

Features: Chehalis Western GP38-2s: 817, 818, 819, and 810 • by Diesel Era Staff with images from Blair Koositra and Paul Wester Canadian National SD60s: 5400–5489 • by Tony Cook, Randy Keller, and Jack Roster with...

Product News Locomotives & Rolling Stock Vehicles & Loads Structures, Scenery & more Books & more HO-Scale Reviews  We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Plow from Bowser  Do You Dream in Color? Santa Fe Three Ways from...

Features: New Baltimore & Fair Haven • by GREGORY RICH, MMR — We visit a beautiful freelanced HO scale layout set in the late 1920s. Gunderson SP&S 50’ Boxcars  • by JAMES...

Product News Locomotives & Rolling Stock Vehicles & Loads Structures, Scenery & more Books & more HO-Scale Reviews  Looking for Less Horsepower   from Rapido Trains   Farm to Table by Rail ...

Features: Journal Spotlight  —  • Amtrak Ridership Reaches New High • Amtrak Inspector General Raises Equipment Concerns • VIA Moves Forward on New Long-Distance Equipment • Introducing...

Features: Allagash Railway Part 2: Oxford County • by Brooks Bentz — The Oxford county railroad is modeled after New England short lines of the 1980s. Boomer Trail: Cocoa Beach RPM Meet • by Jesus...

Product News Locomotives & Rolling Stock Vehicles & Loads Structures, Scenery & more Books & more HO-Scale Reviews  Executive Dress for the 1990s from Rapido Trains  Battle of the Bi-Levels from Atlas...

Features: White Pass & Yukon Route in HOn3 • by MIKE MAY — Modeling an alternate history where the narrow gauge railway is still going strong in 1983. Erie Lackawanna Bulkhead Gondola • by JAMES...

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: 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

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...

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...

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

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...

Product News Locomotives & Rolling Stock Vehicles & Loads Structures, Scenery & more Books & more HO-Scale Reviews Bites of Fantasy — Sharknose from Broadway Limited Imports New ART — Refrigerator Car from Lionel...