Product reviews have long been a popular part of Model Railroader magazine. That probably doesn’t come as a surprise, though. After all, who doesn’t want to learn more about the latest models arriving ...
We tend to think of the current “digital age” as an unparalleled period of wonderful, almost daily innovation. The effect on the hobby of model railroading has been substantial. But, truth be told, ...
Thanks to Bob Hazard’s careful modeling and attention to detail, visitors to his HO scale 26 x 26-foot Crabbitt & Pitchahissee RR are treated to a slice of the logging industry in 1920s West Virginia.
Building an elaborate model railroad looks like a legitimately relaxing and rewarding hobby, but if you don’t have an entire basement to dedicate to a sprawling countryside layout, take inspiration ...
It has always been, and will always be, July 10, 1975 in Ralph S. DeBlasi’s basement. The basement, which DeBlasi of Camden County refers to as his “time machine,” is home to his prototype model ...
I’m a model railroader. To me there’s something so wonderfully comforting in recreating the heyday of American railroading—itself an undeniable driving force behind the superpower we eventually became ...
Most of us would be pretty happy with ourselves if we made one of those neat “epoxy river” types of art for our home. Not so with prolific maker [Peter Waldraff]. [Peter] is a skilled craftsman with a ...
For people who build their own model trains there are a range of manufacturers from whom a power bogie containing the motor and drive can be sourced. But as [Le petit train du Berry] shows us in a ...
Railroads used to crisscross Redstone Arsenal with their whistles and bells cutting through the night air. On Tuesday nights in a building, tucked in the WWII-era warehouses, the sound of train ...
Members of the Tulsa Garden Railroad Club are opening their backyard train layouts to the public this weekend and again in October.
You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Seashore Trolley Museum’s new Maine Central Model Railroad building is now ...