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It’s My Railroad with Steve Brown

An addition, a loss, and a bit of change

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Contributing to Model Railroader

ScaleTrains acquires Fox Valley Models

Peco launches TT scale product line

News & Products

Rapido open house at Illinois Railway Museum

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How is August’s cover photo so sharp?

Model a rural grade crossing scene

A division point with SCOPE FOR OPERATION • Bob Phelps, senior product designer for Peco, built the HO scale Green River, Wyo., layout to run big American trains in England

Anthracite railroading in N scale • This 16 x 22-foot layout models the last days of hard-coal roads in Pennsylvania

Paper people for any pay grade • Make your structures pop with inexpensive figures that fool viewers

Scratchbuild a bulk material barge • Learn how to model this common watercraft with styrene and a few detail parts

TOUCHSCREEN turnout control • Use modern technology to route trains on your model railroad

Useful features of DCC Specialties’ new ECB

Rapido Trains HO scale GMD F59PH diesel

LGB 1:22.5 Electro-Motive Division F7 diesels

Atlas O 40-foot Airslide covered hopper

Limits of yard limits

Trackside Photos

Coming Up

More alternative uses of freight cars