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Rapido to offer HO Canadian piggyback flats

Athearn announces new N scale tank car

News & Products

What does freight car lettering mean?

Quick and easy gondola weathering

ALL ABOARD! • Discovery World’s new train exhibit features an HO scale layout based on 20th-century Milwaukee

What’s that on the wall?

5 tips for moving a layout

Add a gated crossing to your layout • A simple way to protect lightly used junctions

One night in Spokane • The O scale Pacific Railway & Navigation Co. comes alive after dark

A fresh take on the Santa Fe • Noted modeler Chuck Hitchcock’s 28 x 30-foot HO scale layout depicts branchline railroading in Kansas

30 MINUTES TO BETTER VISION • Create ‘footlights’ for your workbench with LED strip lights

Minding the gap

Bachmann N scale streamlined PRR K4s 4-6-2

Athearn Genesis 2.0 HO scale EMD SD70M-2

Spring Mills Depot HO scale DOD flatcars

The station agent

Trackside Photos

By the Yard

Coming Up

Asking ‘stupid’ questions