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A few months ago I wrote about a boxcar storage shed in Crookston, Minn., my hometown. During that same visit my friend, then ...
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 ...
This model of a West Virginia Pulp & Paper Shay steam locomotive will be running on the Mid-Ohio Valley Model Railroad Club’s HO scale modular layout at the group’s 29th Annual Fall Train Show ...
The Twin City Model Railroad Museum is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. Since its inception in 1934 as a workshop club on St. Paul’s Ashland Avenue, the museum has evolved into an ...
A scale test car was recently released by Wm. K. Walthers Inc. The HO scale model, part of the manufacturer’s Proto range, features die-cast metal construction, prototype-specific details, and ...
The Model Railroad Club’s Holiday Train Show and Open House in Union County is set to transport visitors back in time to the railroads of the 1950s. Running on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from Nov.
Model railroading's cross-generational appeal takes center stage at the San Antonio Model Railroad Association's 50th Annual Model Railroad Jamboree this month.
The Keystone Truck and Tractor Museum will host the fifth annual Titans of Transportation event, featuring over 8,600 square feet of model railroad displays. The event will take place over two ...
The call of the railroad hits some people hard, harkening back to a time when trains were the veins and arteries of the land, with large steam engines pulling railroad cars, moving people and freight ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – One of Staten Island’s longest standing and most venerable clubs needs a new meeting place. The Staten Island Society of Model Railroaders, first chartered in 1956, had been ...
For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...