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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...

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 KINKAID — Built for...

Features: Pete Hall’s HO Southern Pacific • by Dan Munson —  Modeling 1950s California Coast Division operations on a large HO layout. Conrail’s 52-foot Gondola Rebuilds • by James Kinkaid —...

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...

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...

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...

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...

James Kinkaid and Ken Donnelly To the casual railfan and modeler, tank cars come in two varieties: those with domes and those without domes. But given the highly regulated nature of the car type,...

ames Kinkaid and Ken Donnelly To the casual railfan and modeler, tank cars come in two varieties: those with domes and those without domes. But given the highly regulated nature of the car type,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...