We are working on a new special issue! Classic Toy Trains’ next special interest publication features 14 layouts you can visit across the United States, from the The Choo Choo Barn, the Chicagoland ...

Roanoke’s railroad “Glory Days” may be well in the past. But one aspect of the railroad community is alive and well.

In the August 2025 issue of Model ... Kear's HO scale Buffalo & Susquehanna to Wellsville, Addison & Galeton. The 12 x 32-foot multi-deck walk-in layout features a logging line circa 1910 and the ...

HO scale model trains are a significant part of model railroading history, and we can partially credit the overall popularity of model trains with the rise of a convenient, tabletop scale like HO.

Emmalyn Bentley of Cape Neddick has also donated a section of the Seashore Trolley Museum’s model railroad. Bentley also created an HO-scale layout of the Maine Central Model Railroad as well as ...

This repository holds various projects used for the automation of the HO-scale model train layout at the Randall Museum in San Francisco. 'Software Defined Blocks' (SDB) is a C++ program for embedded ...

A report by a rail safety advocacy group has found safety concerns with some rail bridges in western Pennsylvania. The report found 11 of 20 bridges inspected were in "poor" or "serious" condition.

The 28th Model Train Festival at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma runs through Jan. 1, delighting kids and adults.

The point is this — bridges are cool. So too are bridges on model railroad layouts. This intersection of bridges on the HO scale Milwaukee, Racine and Troy layout was a favorite for operators and ...

Scale, which tells you the ratio of your model train compared with a real one. An O scale model train is 1:48, so 1 inch on the model equals 48 inches on a real train.

(Abiola Odutola/The Brandon Sun) “The N-scale model has a ratio of 1:160, making it smaller, while the HO scale is 1:87, which is the most common scale in the world,” Stumme said on Saturday.