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 ...

Between 2019 and 2024, Model Railroader magazine commissioned a line of limited-edition, custom-decorated rolling stock for the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy (MR&T), our popular HO and N staff layouts. I ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

His third wife, a professor of family studies, seems to understand. His hours in the basement don't threaten her. Howard Zane, 65, decided when he sold his industrial design company nearly 20 years ...

IN MCKEESPORT. THE MCKEESPORT MODEL RAILROAD CLUB IS HOSTING ITS ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE THIS WEEKEND. FAMILIES CAN EXPLORE 2200FT OF MODEL TRAINS. THE ELABORATE DISPLAYS CHANGE FROM YEAR TO YEAR AND ...

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, ...

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 ...

What led you to photograph model trains? Some grow up liking girls and beer—I also liked trains. In terms of photography, that was my father’s hobby—he had lots of nice cameras. Popular Photography ...