2025 marked another great year for new releases in model railroading. Whatever your scale or discipline in the hobby, odds are good that there was a new release that caught your eye and had you ...

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 ...

Model railroading's cross-generational appeal takes center stage at the San Antonio Model Railroad Association's 50th Annual Model Railroad Jamboree this month.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

MCFARLAND, Wis. (WKOW) — The 58th annual Mad City Model Railroad Show attracted many attendees over the weekend. Tom Morrison, involved with the event for about 30 years, shared insights on the show's ...

POTTSVILLE — A special train carrying President. Harry S. Truman pulled into the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad station on East Norwegian Street on Oct. 22, 1952. Troops from Schuylkill County ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Golden Empire Historical and Modeling Society of Bakersfield is inviting the community to attend its 32nd annual Bakersfield Model Railroad Show in March. The event is ...