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An interview with Jim Wiggin of Athearn

For 80 years, Athearn has been a part of the model railroading industry, producing familiar product ranges like HO scale blue ...
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ScaleTrains HO scale EMD SD38-2 diesel locomotive

The ScaleTrains Electro-Motive Division SD38-2 HO scale (1:87.1) diesel locomotive is featured in this latest product review ...
YDR

Central Pa. has one of the oldest model railroads in America

Being inside the Miniature Railroad Club of York will make you feel like a giant. The model railroad is in HO scale, meaning everything is about one 87th the size of the real world. As you watch the ...
The Gazette

Model Railroad Dreams grew from a childhood interest

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 ...
Courier-Post

Model railroads show history in small scale

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 ...
The State Journal-Register

Model train fans mimic life

The massive model railroad layout members of the Springfield Model Railroad Club created in their meeting space isn’t a toy. Named “Springfield Terminal Railway Association,” the club’s model railroad ...