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Enjoy Trainfest 2024 Highlights with Trains.com

Enjoy Trainfest 2024 Highlights with Trains.com

Trainfest 2024  occurred November 23-24, 2024, at the Baird Center in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Over...

Youngstown Model Railroad Association’s HO scale layout

Youngstown Model Railroad Association’s HO scale layout

In the January 2025 issue of Model Railroader magazine, Contributing Editor Lou Sassi paid a...

Atlas N scale GE B23-7

Atlas N scale GE B23-7

The Atlas N scale GE B23-7 is back in new paint schemes and road numbers....

Big Skies & Iron Rails, Just Add Water

Big Skies & Iron Rails, Just Add Water

Ride the waves with railfan/videographer Tom Danneman, as he makes another epic summertime trek into...

Amtrak Borealis routes into the Upper Midwest

Amtrak Borealis routes into the Upper Midwest

Amtrak Borealis Trains.com staffer Ben Lake, narrates his rides aboard Amtrak's newest Midwest region trains,...

ScaleTrains N scale EMD SD40T-2

ScaleTrains N scale EMD SD40T-2

The ScaleTrains N scale EMD SD40T-2 diesel locomotive recently visited our Milwaukee, Racine & Troy...

Ask Trains.com November 2024 compilation

Ask Trains.com November 2024 compilation

Ask Trains.com November 2024 compilation | This month, Host Cody Grivno addresses your questions about...

Canadian Canyons Series | An N scale Project Layout Overview

Canadian Canyons Series | An N scale Project Layout Overview

David Popp hosts this extensive recap of the entire Canadian Canyons N scale layout construction...

Trains.com Insider Exclusive | Interview with Scott Griggs, Founder of Trainz.com

Trains.com Insider Exclusive | Interview with Scott Griggs, Founder of Trainz.com

Peer in, as Trains.com staffer Lucas Iverson converses with Scott Griggs, Founder and Chief Engineer...

Atlas N scale SD60E

Atlas N scale SD60E

The Atlas N scale SD60E diesel locomotive is now available in the company’s Master Line....

Olympia & Sand Creek, Episode 21 | Painting the backdrop – Part 4

Olympia & Sand Creek, Episode 21 | Painting the backdrop – Part 4

Watch as artist Jay Smith, former illustrator (ret.) for Kalmbach Media, concludes backdrop painting efforts...

Trains.com Insider Exclusive | Founder Jason Shron reflects on 20 years of Rapido Trains Inc.

Trains.com Insider Exclusive | Founder Jason Shron reflects on 20 years of Rapido Trains Inc.

In this late summer 2024 interview hosted by Model Railroader magazine's Editor Eric White and...

Renfe Alvia high-speed train ride in Spain

Renfe Alvia high-speed train ride in Spain

Join Trains.com staff member Sean Kirby as he rides onboard a Renfe Alvia high-speed train...

Spaces to Places VI | Fixing a wayward waterway, part 4

Spaces to Places VI | Fixing a wayward waterway, part 4

Watch as the river space quickly becomes a place, as Host Gerry Leone turns his...

Olympia & Sand Creek, Episode 20 | Painting the backdrop – Part 3

Olympia & Sand Creek, Episode 20 | Painting the backdrop – Part 3

As Jay Smith, former illustrator (ret.) for Kalmbach Media, continues is his backdrop painting efforts...

Ask Trains.com October 2024 compilation

Ask Trains.com October 2024 compilation

Ask Trains.com October 2024 compilation | In this episode, Host Cody Grivno talks about model...

InterMountain HO scale GP16 diesel locomotive

InterMountain HO scale GP16 diesel locomotive

The much-anticipated InterMountain HO scale GP16 diesel locomotive recently arrived at our new Brookfield headquarters....

Rapido Trains HO Alco FA1 and FB1 diesels

Rapido Trains HO Alco FA1 and FB1 diesels

The Rapido Trains HO Alco FA1 and FB1 diesels are the subject of our latest...

Olympia & Sand Creek, Episode 19 | Painting the backdrop – Part 2

Olympia & Sand Creek, Episode 19 | Painting the backdrop – Part 2

Jay Smith, former illustrator (ret.) for Kalmbach Media, is back for more work on David's...

How-to Library | Detailing and weathering a diesel locomotive, part 2

How-to Library | Detailing and weathering a diesel locomotive, part 2

Efforts to make a new, HO scale (1:87.1) Alco RS1 diesel locomotives appear more worn...