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  Product News Locomotives & Rolling Stock Vehicles & Loads Structures, Scenery & more Books & more HO-Scale Reviews Atlas Master U28C and U28CG Atlas Master U33B ScaleTrains ES44 Walthers Mainline SD70ACe Rapido...

Special Feature Colorado Pacific • by Jerry Hoverson, MMR — A Narrow Gauge Branch Line Owned By The Rocky Mountain Central. Features An HO Scale Abandoned Mining Town • by Jim Gray — Worn Out And Derelict. Swandale Planing Mill...

Product News Locomotives & Rolling Stock Vehicles & Loads Structures, Scenery & more Books & more HO-Scale Reviews Rapido Trains PA/PB Diesels PIKO America Whitcomb 65-ton Diesel Spring Mills Depot DODX Transport Car Spring Creek Model...

Features: Journal spotlight • Amtrak announces Airo • Siemens trains for Ontario Northland • Canada’s High-Frequency Rail: Boon or boondoggle? • Amtrak service failures increase in 2022 Back on...

Features: Amtrak “Day One” E-Unit in HO From Rapido Trains • by Tony Cook A Gaggle of Geese: Santa Fe’s Blue Goose in HO • by Tony Cook Bachmann’s Plasticville, U.S.A. Turns 75 • by...

  Product News Locomotives & Rolling Stock Vehicles & Loads Structures, Scenery & more Books & more HO-Scale Reviews Broadway Limited Blue Goose 4-6-4 Tangent Scale Models Wide-Vision Caboose Atlas Master C-424 ...

Robert J. Yanosey Volume 1 shows the many billboards, underpasses, signals, yard and ROW, and many other types of signs from many different railroads over the years. Over 500 full color images from the 1940s - present!

Stephen M. Timko A new series with a focus on particular models! Just Geeps In Color Volume 1 illustrates over 300 of the popular GP7 model, including the GP7B and subsequent rebuilds to model GP8s. The book covers the American-built units, GP7s built in...

From the track itself, through the roadbed, and out into the weeds at the edge of the right of way, Jeff Wilson shares the details that keep railroads running, and how to incorporate them into your modeling for a more realistic layout. Modeler's Guide to...

Stephen M. Timko The massive fleet of over 560 GP7s and ‘9s, to the modest purchases of Baldwin and Alco models, including the late first-generation SD18s are featured! Includes the Pere Marquette-ordered EMD BL2s.

Model Realistic Freight Car Loads will guide you in making your models more realistic by following prototype practice in securing loads and operating them. Included are a lot of photos of real loads, drawings showing how real railroads secure them...

Have an extra spare room in your house? Downsizing your layout? Building The Right-Sized Layout is the perfect book to help with planning a room-sized layout for your home. This new book features 5 track plans covering details on how to create...

Woodland Scenics Complete Guild to Model Scenery

Stephen M. Timko Continued coverage of Canadian National’s motive power fleet with a focus on switchers! General Electric industrial-size units are featured along with the standard fare of Alco/MLW, EMD/GMD, and CLC end-cab units. A handful of...

James Kinkaid and Ken Donnelly The 1950s are arguably the classic era for freight cars, pre-dating the mergers that would erase many venerable roads and leave us with new names such as Penn Central, Seaboard Coast Lines, and Erie-Lackawanna. In the...

Greg Stout Featuring Alco freight and passenger cab units, road switchers, EMD freight and passenger cab units, yard power, first and second generation roadswitchers; Baldwin Lima Hamilton yard power; General Electric road units! Spanning from the...

Join author Chip Syme as he hires on with the Penn Central in 1969 as a fireman through the end of Conrail during his days as an engineer! A lot of good miles and smiles and they're recounted here in terrific photographs and entertaining stories! Morning...

A book about cabooses Kalmbach Guide to North American Cabooses

Applying Lessons From the Prototype from Kalmbach is perfect for modelers looking to design and build a new layout, or those who just want to take their existing layout to the next level by incorporating features of a specific prototype railroad. Noted...

Model Railroader's Guide to Iron Ore Railroads from Kalmbach is an exploration of the iron ore industry and the role played by rail. Noted author Jeff Wilson details the history and evolution of the iron ore industry and railroads across all eras from...