News & Products for the week of September 28th 2026 Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by ...

Q: I purchased two Athearn (Roundhouse line) ready-to-run locomotives in HO scale. In direct current, the rooftop beacon on top worked. When I installed a Digital Command Control decoder, I lost the ...

Product reviews have long been a popular part of Model Railroader magazine. That probably doesn’t come as a surprise, though. After all, who doesn’t want to learn more about the latest models arriving ...