For many years Hobbyshop Window was a popular department in the pages of Model Railroader magazine. We’re excited to bring it back as a recurring feature on Trains.com. Here’s a recap of some of the ...

Not all of us have the deep pockets required to build a large, elaborate model railroad. And that’s perfectly fine, as even ...

News & Products for the week of June 1st 2026 Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading ...

A recent gift of a stash of old model trains provided a true N scale nostalgia trip. It’s hard to believe that N scale has ...

The Texas-based program coordinator, now in his early 60s, runs a 128,000-subscriber YouTube channel where he tests train ...

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Jeff Jamison still has the first model train engine he received when he was 6 or 7. "It was a little Tyco diesel engine," he said, that his father gave him. Like most model-railroading hobbyists, ...

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 ...

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 ...

WOODBURY — While everyone else is fooling with the newest version of the iPhone and Xbox 360s, Dave Skinner takes comfort in the days of Lionel trains and model railroads under the Christmas tree.

ELLENSBURG, Wash. – At first, Jim Pendley just wanted to build a replica of two Northern California railroad bridges that he traveled over in the heart of the scenic Sierra Nevada in the mid-1980s as ...

Noise of modern life got you down? Turns out you can escape it altogether in the basement of Memorial Lutheran Church in Rose Village. There, the Southwest Washington Model Railroaders run a ...