HO scale model trains are a significant part of model railroading history, and we can partially credit the overall popularity ...

Though cabooses have all but disappeared from today’s railroads, they’re still front and center for hobby manufacturers.

The ScaleTrains Electro-Motive Division SD7 HO scale (1:87.1) diesel locomotive is highlighted in this latest product review ...

For many years Hobbyshop Window was a popular department in the pages of Model Railroader magazine. We’re excited to bring it ...

The last time David Popp and Jason Shron, owner and CEO of Rapido Trains Inc., chatted back in May 2025, the hot topic was ...

Many people remember a childhood with an electric train set. Perhaps it was an HO-scale layout on a sheet of plywood in the basement or a brand-new Lionel set first discovered under the Christmas tree ...

There are about nine model train clubs on Long Island, but apparently only the West Island Model Railroad Club in Hicksville allows visitors to run its trains at open houses. And at this year’s ...

The Los Angeles Model Railroad Society in Hawthorne has been running their HO scale trains since the mid 1970’s. James Van Der Beek, the ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star who later mocked his own hunky persona, ...

Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” Something in a corner of his basement in his Woodbury home, where he could ...