Where does model railroading rank among Americans’ favorite hobbies? “It depends on whom you ask and how you define `hobby,’ ” says Jim Slocum, editor and publisher of Model Retailer magazine in ...

Youngstown Model Railroad Association officer Bruce Silvernail handles the switching operations at one of the large yards on the HO layout. The YMRA HO layout will appear in the national magazine, ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- As of December 1st, the COVID-19 pandemic has killed 3,313 people in Wisconsin. They not statistics. They are partners, parents, children and friends. They all have a story, ...

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 ...

Bob Brown, Editor of Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette, passed away on Feb. 1, 2026. He was 93 years old. Bob traced his interest in the hobby to the October 1944 issue of Model Railroader magazine, ...

Jeff Jamison still has the first model train engine he received when he was 6 or 7. "It was a little Tyco diesel engine," he said, that his father gave him. Like most model-railroading hobbyists, ...

ELLENSBURG, Wash. – At first, Jim Pendley just wanted to build a replica of two Northern California railroad bridges that he traveled over in the heart of the scenic Sierra Nevada in the mid-1980s as ...

Rod Stewart loves models, that's no secret, but it's his love for model railroading that led to his appearance on the cover of the Milwaukee-area-based Model Railroader magazine. Rod Stewart loves ...