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 ...

Periodically, I dig through old issues of Model Railroader with an eye toward changes in the hobby, as well as noting the introduction of techniques and layout design practices that we take for ...

Apps are all around us these days. Some are helpful, some are annoying, and some are required to just get through our days. As we get used to the idea of an app for everything, you might wonder if ...

In Detroit last week assembled more than 200 people united by a common passion—the construction and operation of model railroads with such elaborate attention to detail and conformity to scale that ...

Kalmbach Media, a 90-year-old Wisconsin publisher, has sold its Model Railroader, Trains, Astronomy, and other magazines to a Tennessee publisher. The sale to Firecrown Media, of Chattanooga, also ...

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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 ...

Of the 18 museums in Balboa Park, only one is in a basement. The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is the successor to a rich history of model railroading in the park. That history began in 1935, when a ...

Members of the Smith Mountain Lake Model Railroad Group recently gathered around the O-gauge layout that’s been created by Waverly Resident Jim Mathie during the past eight years.

WAUKESHA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- As of December 1st, the COVID-19 pandemic has killed 3,313 people in Wisconsin. They not statistics. They are partners, parents, children and friends. They all have a story, ...

Richard Fifield’s Epsom basement is a bustling depot. “Jug City Railway,” the miniature railroad he began building in 1981, now boasts a Walmart loading dock, an oil refinery, a wood pulp plant and ...