Books

  Features: Journal Spotlight  Mexico’s Tren Maya. Amtrak Presents Potential Equipment Concepts. Orlando Welcomes Brightline • by Jack M. Turner — Florida’s higher-speed alternative to flying and driving expands. Brightline: From...

  Features: Modeling Prototype Scenes • by Joe Green — Consider these simple concepts to create realistic scenes for your model railroad. Baltimore & Ohio Canstock Boxcar • by James Kinkaid — These Pullman-Standard 50 ft...

  Product News Locomotives & Rolling Stock Vehicles & Loads Structures, Scenery & more Books & more HO-Scale Reviews Iconic New York Central Power Bachmann J3a Hudson 4-6-4 Steam Locomotive Lightfooted RS-11 Rapido...

  Special Feature On30 in the Garden — The D&RGW in a North Yorkshire Garden • by William Longley-Cook — Challenges and Opportunities Features What’s Next? • by Pete Leach, MMR — What Do You Do When You Finish Your...

 Features: Clinchfield Railroad Carolina Division • by BRENT JOHNSON — Set in 1977, this double-deck HO scale layout depicts Clinchfield in the Carolinas.GSC Depressed-Center Flatcar • by JAMES KINKAID — These cars answered...

 Product News  Locomotives & Rolling Stock  Vehicles & Loads  Structures, Scenery & more  Books & more HO-Scale Reviews Lifesaver and Red Team GP40s Atlas Master Silver edition Big Blue SD40...

 Features: TYCO’s Chrome Crescent A Genuine Gleaming Rarity  • by Tony Lucio — Description.Steam Locomotives of the 1950s from Model Die Casting-Roundhouse  • by Tony Cook21st Century Return for a Wide-Vision Caboose from...

Get your modeling projects on track with a copy of the 2024-2025 Model Railroad Reference Book! Updated from cover to cover, you'll find the latest new product announcements, information and updated listings for hundreds of products in HO, N and Z Scales...

The C&NW operated many routes throughout the mid-west, and all are covered in 17 chapters in this 144 page all color book by renowned author, Dean Freimund. Prior to being merged into the UP in 1995, the C&NW purchased many diesel units secondhand from...

Features: Journal spotlight • 36 passenger trains a day on Florida East Coast! • VIA Rail Canada completes Budd HEP fleet testing program. Alaska 2023 • by Frank Keller — Positive outlook as Alaska...

Features: Pennsylvania RR South Bend Branch • by Tim Nicholson — An HO scale proto-freelanced Pennsy branch line shelf layout designed for photography. Chicago Great Western 60’ Boxcar • by James...

Featuring signs railroads used at their offices and shops, in operations, and at all types of stations. It also illustrates the different types of crossbucks from simple to wig-wag. Like Volume 1, it contains over 500 full color images from the 1940s –...

The final installment in this series chronicling the revenue equipment of dozens of companies 1980 - 2000. Features NS, N&W, NYC(CR), ONT, OTTX, P&LE, PC, PHD, PLCX, PROX, PTLX, RBOX, RGCX, SBD, SCL, SOO, SOU, SP, SPSX, TTLX, TPIX, UCEX, WC, WSTX, WW,...

By Robert J. Yanosey Famed rail photographer Em Gulash traveled extensively in the U.S. and Canada and made it part of his standard repertoire to photograph freight cars in these far flung places. This volume covers the rolling stock of ACFX, AGPX,...

By Dick Donat The last of steam and early diesel are chronicled on the Santa Fe, Union Pacific, and Southern Pacific in mid-twentieth century.

Kurt Reisweber A medium, mostly North Carolina railroad swallowed via merger with the Southern Railway System in the mid-1970s! Featuring action photos along the entire railroad with a choice selection of locomotive shots, coverage concludes with an...

Greg Stout An in-depth dive into the great trains of the Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, and merged Seaboard Coast Line, which moved passengers between Chicago, the Northeast, and sunny Florida!

Dr. Art Peterson and P. Kent Hannah The stations, towers, shops, and other fixed facilities of the Q on the main line and branches between Galesburg, Illinois and Ottumwa, Iowa are comprehensively examined in full color.

Mike Zollitsch A stunning collection of B&O photography on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh through the steam-to-diesel transition years and up to Chessie System. Rare steam images of freights and passenger trains going back to World War II and...

Jerry Pinkepank The motive power and phosphate operations in the Bone Valley of Florida are explained in detail by diesel authority Jerry Pinkepank in this concluding volume to the series. SBD System, CSX, shortlines!