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Section: Special Issues
Locomotive 2022
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Horse Power: Norfolk Southern at 40
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EMD at 100
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Model Railroading: The Ultimate Guide 2023
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Fallen Flags: Wisconsin Central Remembered
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Model Railroad Planning 2023
Model Railroad Planning is back for 2023 with 12 new stories curated by longtime Model Railroader contributing editor Tony Koester. This essential guide for model railroad planning mixes track planning, operating a model railroad, construction, scenery, and operation into one outstanding publication. Don’t miss these new design ideas for N, HO, and O scales! […]
Fallen Flags: Santa Fe Remembered
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Lionel Trains of the 1940s
Also in this issue: Introducing Lionel Trains of the 1940s Our comprehensive look at a significant and not-so-segmented decade. Momentous and meaningful decade for Lionel Modernizing in many wonderful ways. Breakthrough year in realism for locomotives and cars Looking forward with many glances at the recent past. Colorful and fanciful cars still rode the Lionel […]
Great Model Railroads 2023
PLUS Celebrating the CP’s centennial The freelanced HO scale Strathcona Division models the Canadian Pacific in British Columbia Modeling C&O’s Kanawha Sub Coal is king on this HO scale Appalachian layout Time well spent An O gauge modeler replaces his three-rail layout with a 1:48 scale granger road New England memories A new version of […]
How to Model Locomotives
PLUS Motivation for motive power Introduction Sound for legacy locomotives – F units A little soldering goes a long way How to detail, paint, and decal a locomotive Give a road switcher a new look How diesel facilities work A lot of work goes on behind the scenes between road trips Speed matching for DCC […]
East Broad Top
The East Broad Top is the most comprehensive and up-to-date look at the rebirth of a legend. Get the behind the scenes information on this last major narrow gauge railroad in Eastern United States. Retrace the history, visit its shop complex at Orbisonia, Pa., and learn about the efforts it takes to bring a railroad […]