Books and Magazines

The Model Railroader’s Guide to Bridges & Trestles is your one-stop source for information on real bridges. This book will guide you through the history of the various bridge types from the first days of railroading...

Milk was once an important commodity for the railroads. Before refrigeration became mainstream, high-speed delivery was critical. Trains carried butter, milk and cheese from small town collecting stations and creameries to the production creameries in...

Regional Rail LLC has operated 16 different rail lines mostly in PA but also in NY and DE primarily under the East Penn Railroad banner. These include the Octoraro, Lancaster & Northern, and Middletown & New Jersey. Expert photography documents...

As the production and consumption of commodities like grain, coal, lumber, coil steel, cement, and more have evolved over the years, so have the railroad cars that haul them. Commodities by Freight Car shows you which cars carried which cargoes in the...

  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...

Enjoy a guided tour of Illinois Central’s network of lines south of the Ohio River, from the 1960s to acquisition by Canadian National in 1999. From southern Illinois, through Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, enjoy more than 200 color...

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...