Learn how to identify rotating beacons on model trains with expert tips for collectors! This video breaks down the different types, colors, and designs of rotating beacons, helping hobbyists ...

If you’ve followed Model Railroader’s Facebook page, you’ll probably know that periodically over the past several years, I’ve ...

History: Model railroads depict the times in which they operated. Basic carpentry and electrical skills: Building layouts involves cutting wood, basic wiring, and more. Economics: Railroads move raw ...

Enter your division and build a model/poster to exhibit at the fair. It is recommended you attend at least four of the scheduled meetings. Volunteer to work the Model Railroad Exhibit running trains ...

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, ...

What’s the Christmas season without model railroad displays? If you’ve never discovered the combination of the two, the folks at the Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum will be happy to help you. The museum, ...

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 ...

These Reading Company model locomotives and boxcar are among Managing Editor Roger DuPuis’ recent acquisitions. It’s not entirely a thought experiment. As editor Roger DuPuis outlined in Sunday’s page ...

Young Jaxon Hartley, his mother Kayla Hartley and Barb Ruby enjoy the model railroad display at the Kalispell Center Mall Saturday, November 27. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake) Bill Luce and his ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The 58th annual Railroad Hobby Show is set for this weekend at the Eastern States Exposition Fairgrounds in West Springfield. Eastern States Exposition offers free ...

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