Model railroad locomotive, freight car, structure, detail, and track announcements for June 24, 2021

Broadway Limited Imports N scale Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Electro-Motive Division F3 diesel locomotive no. 25.

Product news  Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading Model Railroader’s frequent product updates. Here are the products Model Railroader editors have news on for the week of June 24, 2021. HO scale freight cars  52-foot mill gondola. Rock Island […]

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South Dakota State Railroad Museum’s HO scale display layout

Make a trek to this tourist railroad site in Hill City, SD, and you can also see a 300 square foot model railroad. Enjoy a quick look at an HO scale (1:87) display that works to depict the railroad scene in South Dakota. To learn more, visit www.sdsrm.org […]

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Model railroad locomotive, freight car, structure, and detail announcements for June 17, 2021

Great Northern and Norfolk & Western International Car Co. cupola cabooses

Product news  Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading Model Railroader’s frequent product updates. Here are the products Model Railroader editors have news on for the week of June 17, 2021. HO scale freight cars  General American Tank Car welded […]

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Model railroad locomotive, freight car, and detail announcements for June 10, 2021

Canadian Pacific Genesis 2.0 Electro-Motive Division SD90MAC diesel locomotive.

HO scale locomotives  Electro-Motive Division SD90MAC diesel locomotive. Canadian Pacific (red and black), CIT Group (blue and black), Indiana Rail Road (red and white in two road numbers, 25th anniversary scheme in one number), Norfolk Southern (Primed for Grime series Union Pacific patchouts), and Union Pacific (Armour Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray, 3470-3775 series units […]

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Last Year’s Walthers Winners Prove That Age Is Just a Number

Bo and Ian Afdahl sit in front of an Afdahl Farm sign.

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Out in the quiet countryside of Arkansaw, Wisconsin, brothers Bo and Ian Afdahl wake up every morning at 5 a.m. to milk and feed the cows on their family’s small dairy farm. After school, they come back home and do it all over again, typically working late into the evening. On the […]

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Model railroad locomotive, freight car, structure, detail, tool, and book announcements for May 27, 2021

Refrigerator car

Product news  Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading Model Railroader’s frequent product updates. Here are the products Model Railroader editors have news on for the week of May 27, 2021. HO scale locomotives  Electro-Motive Division SD40-2 diesel locomotive. Atchison, […]

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Rapido Trains HO scale MLW M420 diesel

Rapido locomotive

Rapido Trains is bringing the comfort, Canadian style. We recently received a sample of the company’s new Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) M420 loco- motive, and it’s a beauty, eh? The prototype. When Alco locomotive production ceased in Schenectady, N.Y., in 1969, locomotives continued to be built in Canada by former subsidiary Montreal Locomotive Works until […]

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