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News & Products

Railway Post Office

Whether to weather? That’s a tough one

Baldwin Model Locomotive Works in the 1960s

Add an interior to a structure

Adding depth to your backdrops • Simple one-point perspective drawings can create the impression the scene continues past the back wall

ROLLING ON THE RIVER • An N scale depiction of the builder’s Wisconsin hometown ends up in a museum

Build a steel truss arch bridge • A prototype span in Oregon inspired this HO scale model

STREAMLINERS through the Southwest • Transition-era passenger and freight trains speed through Arizona and California on the club-sized Sunset Route

Keeping Digitrax equipment up to date

ScaleTrains.com N scale GE C39-8 diesel

Atlas Trainman Gold HO Alco RS-32 and RS-36

MRC Prodigy Express2 DCC system

ExactRail HO scale GSI 53'-6" bulkhead flatcar

Try it, you might like it

Trackside Photos

Cartoon

‘The fishing rod, not the fish’