Q: What layout is behind Model Railroader Senior Editor Cody Grivno when he hosts “Cody’s Office” on Trains.com? — James Macko A: The layout in the background is the Winston-Salem Southbound Tar ...

In Detroit last week assembled more than 200 people united by a common passion—the construction and operation of model railroads with such elaborate attention to detail and conformity to scale that ...

Adding small details can have a big impact on your layout. And I’m not kidding when I say the word “small.” I’m talking about a granular level, as in grains of sand. Brennan’s recently sent CTT ...

For the last 23 years, Rod Stewart has been working on a massive model railroad. The successful singer has been featured in both Railway Modeller (published in his native UK) and Model Railroader ...

Model trains have a way of captivating both the young and the young at heart and for the Pahrump Model Railroad Club, the passion runs deep. To share their love of the hobby and hopefully inspire ...

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, ...

His third wife, a professor of family studies, seems to understand. His hours in the basement don't threaten her. Howard Zane, 65, decided when he sold his industrial design company nearly 20 years ...

Kalmbach Media, a 90-year-old Wisconsin publisher, has sold its Model Railroader, Trains, Astronomy, and other magazines to a Tennessee publisher. The sale to Firecrown Media, of Chattanooga, also ...

WEBVTT AMAJOR MILESTONE.>> STEVE, YOU WANT TO HELP MEHERE GET THIS OPEN?>> EDITOR NEIL BESOUGLOFF ANDTHE STAFF AT KALMBACH PUBLISHINGIN WAUKESHA ARE CELEBRATING AMAJOR MILESTONE.>> THIS IS THE KIND OF ...

What led you to photograph model trains? Some grow up liking girls and beer—I also liked trains. In terms of photography, that was my father’s hobby—he had lots of nice cameras. Popular Photography ...

When Robin Claxton was seven years old, his father built him and his little brother a model train layout with a 4’ by 8’ sheet of plywood and some old tracks and engines at the family’s home in Sharon ...