Top 7 1/2 products of 2022

As we enter the holidays and highball into 2023, the MR staff wanted to take a look back at our top model railroad products of 2022. Any of these would make great gifts for any modeler on your Christmas list or even for yourself.

Black, red, and white diesel locomotive on a scenery base — Athearn Genesis 2.0 Dash 9-40CW

Athearn added the General Electric Dash 9-44CW to its Genesis 2.0 lineup.

Group photo of six O scale tank cars — Tangent Scale Models released a brass General American 1928-design 6,000-gallon three-compartment tank car in O scale and Proto:48 versions. The first six paint schemes are shown here. Tangent Scale Models photo

Tangent released their first O scale model, the General American 1928-design 6,000-gallon three-compartment tank car.

Photo of modern HO scale locomotive on scenicked base — Bachmann’s HO scale Siemens ALC-42 locomotive is decorated in the Amtrak Day One paint scheme. You can read a review of this model in the May 2022 issue.

Following Amtrak’s 50th anniversary, Bachmann released its ALC-42 Charger in the “Day 1” paint scheme.

Eastern Seaboard Models entered the HO scale market with their insulated boxcars.

Gray and yellow train locomotive on tracks with a blue sky background — General Motors Diesel Division F40PH-2D diesel locomotive

Rapido brought the General Motors Division F40PH-2D to the N scale market.

Photo of HO scale refrigerator car painted yellow, black, and silver. — Kalmbach Hobby Store HO scale Milwaukee, Racine & Troy 40-foot hinged-door steel refrigerator car no. 1568 custom-produced by Accurail.

The Kalmbach Hobby Store released their custom run of the Accurail HO scale 40-foot hinged-door steel refrigerator car in a mid-20th century Milwaukee, Racine & Troy paint scheme.

Photo of HO scale EMD SDL39 painted orange and black on scenicked base. — ScaleTrains.com HO scale Museum Quality line Milwaukee Road Electro-Motive Division SDL39 diesel locomotive No. 583.

ScaleTrains added to their Museum Quality line with the Electro-Motive Division SDL39.

model of a Big Boy — Broadway Limited Imports Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy steam locomotive.

And for the 1/2, an engine updated for its excursion service, Union Pacific no. 4014 from Broadway Limited Imports.

We hope you have enjoyed this year’s model releases as much as we have. Do you have a favorite model that was released this year that isn’t mentioned? We would love to hear about it in the comments below!