Layout visit to the N scale Modutrak display, as presented at Trainfest 2025 in Milwaukee, Wis.

Most modelers can pinpoint the photos, people, events, books, or stories that inspired them to build their model railroads.

For 80 years, Athearn has been a part of the model railroading industry, producing familiar product ranges like HO scale blue ...

The Kanab Train Show returns January 16–17, 2026, with model railroad displays, vendors, and activities for kids and adults ...

Most men of a certain age can remember playing with model train sets, perhaps received from under the Christmas tree or as a ...

“I started out with HO scale trains, but in my late teens I discovered N scale and I found that I could create more realistic scenes due to the proportion of scenery to trains.” An N scale train is ...

Model railroaders typically observe their project from high above. It would be neat to see what the world looks like to the residents of your little town, but getting down to their point of view is ...

Most of us would be pretty happy with ourselves if we made one of those neat “epoxy river” types of art for our home. Not so with prolific maker [Peter Waldraff]. [Peter] is a skilled craftsman with a ...