Books and Magazines

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Features: New England Style: South River & Millville by BOB VAN GELDER - This tribute to New England railroading is a showcase for detailed HO structures. Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Coil...

Product News Locomotives & Rolling Stock Vehicles & Loads Structures, Scenery & more Books & more HO-Scale Reviews A Rare Big Mac   from Athearn Trains Elevated Effort   from Lionel...

Features: Yakima Valley Trolley Finale?by DAVID HONAN— Washington state’s iconic preserved interurban line faces an uncertain future in the wake of Yakima’s city budget crisis. BNSF Along the Clark...

Features Dave Augsburger — Snowbird • by Olev Taremae — Classic Maine Central Winter Action Deep in the Deep South 1977 • by Jeffrey G. Plant and Jeremy F. Plant — Vintage Southern Short Lin

Features: Journal Spotlight —   • Despite challenges, Amtrak FY2025 ridership increases• AmeriStarRail makes news with proposals• Mexican passenger project begins near U.S. border VIA to Hudson...

Review: Mudd Creek Models“Barrel and Staves” Kit –Something Entirely Newby Dennis Murphy You’re In The Army NowPart 2by Roy Cutler The Sutter Creek DivisionPhase One Iron Mountain, Part 2by Ward...

Features: Shocks Mills Bridge – Then and Now — by Thom Horvath Wreck of The Broker Commemoration — by Jeff Kovacs Wheeling & Lake Erie 250th Tribu

Special Feature The 2-foot Gauge Railroads At Searles LakePart 1: The Railroads — by Dan Quine  Features Bridging The Las Animas River On My HOn3 Rio Grande Southern LayoutOpen At The 46th...