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Celebrating N scale

Model Railroader

News & Reviews

Remembering Chuck Hitchcock

Broadway Limited N GE ES44AC

Walthers HO ACF-design covered hopper

Atlas N Gunderson cryogenic reefer

Railway Post Office

Ask MR

Getting started in scratchbuilding

EAST TROY INDUSTRIAL PARK BUILDING BRIDGES • Part 6: Using plastic kits to make realistic bridges for our HO scale project railroad

Model a head-end caboose • This HO scale Monon car started life as a U.S. Army troop kitchen car

A visit to the EAGLE POINT RR • A live steam railroad in the Tennessee mountains

Fire!

Rebuilding

Meet the club

THE PHREE LANZ & PHANTA ZEE RR • This 23 x 35-foot N scale model railroad is set in the western United States during the late 1950s

Build a CB&Q standard livestock scale and scale house • These often overlooked structures were important to railroads’ ability to set rates and earn money for moving livestock

GRIND YOUR OWN GROUND FOAM • Sometimes you just can’t find what you want at the hobby shop

SAVE UP TO 59% • ON 1 YEAR OF MODEL RAILROADER MAGAZINE

B&M Train 5507 at Troy Ledges

Trackside Photos

By the Yard®

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When do-it-yourself is counterproductive