Read about some notable model train products from the 1960s taken from the pages of Model Railroader magazine.

We know many people who put much effort into building model train setups ... The S-scale set includes two locomotives, a tanker, a box car, a hopper car, and a gondola car. There are different ...

Full-sized Murray designs, such as the Salamanca, became the first commercially viable steam locomotives, and were built around the same time as the model. At least two other models of the same ...

Evie Carrick is a writer and editor who’s lived in five countries and visited well over 50. She now splits her time between Colorado and Paris, ensuring she doesn't have to live without skiing ...

Bangkok, Thailand - October 23, 2024 The State Railway of Thailand runs a special tourist train for the public with Pacific steam locomotives No. 824 and 850, post-World War II model, on the ...

This model of a West Virginia Pulp & Paper Shay steam locomotive will be running on the Mid-Ohio Valley Model Railroad Club’s HO scale modular layout at the group’s 29th Annual Fall Train Show ...

Among the items lost in the blaze was an HO scale layout 16 years in the making. In this article we share tips on insuring model trains should disaster strike. Steve Brown photo Though we consider ...

Those wishing to see Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, will have their chance Wednesday in Greeley. The popular train will be on public display during its whistle ...

The world’s largest steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, rolls into Topeka on Oct. 17, 2024. (Photo by Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector) The train named Big Boy was late. Anticipation and impatience ...

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 will depart from Denver Union Station back to the locomotive's home base in Cheyenne, ending the locomotive's "Heartland of America Tour." Big Boy No. 4014 will ...

The fall tour, which began in August, has the famed locomotive traveling from its open in Cheyenne, Wyoming, through nine states, including Colorado. The tour will make two whistle stops in ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A historic Union Pacific train will make its way across Kansas. The Big Boy Heartland of America Tour pulls into the state on Thursday arriving in Topeka at 12:15 p.m. and ...