This small, genuinely charming town in Frederick County has figured out something that the rest of Maryland seems to have ...

I'm taking my love for trains to the small scale. I am building a train set on a table, and it's already more expensive than ...

Modeler Sy Diamond is a veteran builder who takes a great deal of pride and satisfaction from what he has accomplished during more than six decades of model railroading. His various layouts have ...

Pictured: One of the oldest track cleaners is a simple pad of cotton or cloth attached to an extended arm. You just gently ...

The Mount Clemens club focuses on model railroading and meets once a week to work on layouts, share knowledge and enjoy a ...

Trains.com Courses™ offers step-by-step model railroad courses with David Popp, from benchwork to track. Launching Oct. 12.

Learn more about the HO scale WalthersMainline HO EMD SD70 in this product review from Model Railroader magazine.

Q: I enjoyed the September 2026 issue of Model Railroader very much, particularly the article about the Yosemite Valley RR.

Model railroad magazines from the 1950s sit just a few feet from brand-new, high-tech locomotives in one small Washington shop. Plenty of people stop in planning a quick errand ...

Thomas Mogish has been working on his life’s work for the past 15 years. Mogish is a model railroader with the Memphis Modular Group. For more than a decade, he ...

Model trains, operating layouts, rare parts, repairs, and shelves of tiny treasures make this old-school Florida hobby shop easy to explore for hours.

If you asked 100 model train enthusiasts what makes the hobby special, you would never get the same answer twice — and that is especially true at the Altoona Association of Model Railroaders, whose ...