John Olson, a popular Model Railroader magazine author and photographer from the 1970s through the 1990s, died on Dec. 28, 2025. He was 78 years old. His first MR article, “A day at Mule Shoes Meadows ...

Learn more about the latest products to arrive at the Model Railroader offices for the week ending February 6th 2026.

You can make the best models in the world, but as soon as you can see the layout room wall behind them, they tend to lose ...

Set in Southern California, my HO scale layout includes a Southern Pacific train order office surrounded by a desert scene. Although this arid landscape has sparse vegetation, my scene needed two ...

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Brain Holtz Denver Rio Grande Western at Night Dave Frary says dont be scared of geology or scenery but there are a few basics yo need to know Malcolm Fuller shows you how to make the basic support ...

The Waynesboro Model Railroad Club is hosting its annual Holiday Open House through the end of January. The club, located in a former grain elevator, features four different scale model railroads ...

Multiple generations of adults can vividly recall waking up on Christmas morning to find a model railroad train set circling around the holiday tree. The allure of model trains followed the growth of ...

Of the 18 museums in Balboa Park, only one is in a basement. The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is the successor to a rich history of model railroading in the park. That history began in 1935, when a ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Legendary singer Sir Rod Stewart set up a spy camera to keep an eye on his sprawling model railroad layout, as it was dismantled in preparation for a transatlantic journey from the United States to ...

Deep beneath an unassuming home in Rocky Hill, trains whistle past mountain towns, cross rivers, and pull into hand-built stations on a journey that takes nearly 20 minutes, end to end. This is not a ...