HO scale model trains are a significant part of model railroading history, and we can partially credit the overall popularity ...

Learn more about the latest products to arrive at the Model Railroader offices for the week ending February 27th 2026.

Tour the HO scale (1:87.1) Chicago, Peoria & Western, John Brennan’s masterfully designed model railroad depicting the ...

In a room off the detached garage of a home in southeast Cedar Rapids, it's always the early 1950s in central Pennsylvania, in miniature. Steam locomotives haul coal from area mines to rail yards ...

Robert Lafferty sat back as he took control of his steam locomotive in the back of the main display hall at the Augusta ...

If you’ve followed Model Railroader’s Facebook page, you’ll probably know that periodically over the past several years, I’ve made posts called “Lunchtime Reading,” which are simply my musings on ...

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 ...