Several months ago, Walthers released their Metroliner models. Even though I have little desire to eventually model the Northeast Corridor...

I've made some progress on the model railroad, but before I get into that, I promised in my last post that I would explain my fictiona...

Okay, so calling it a layout may be a bit of a stretch.  It's a Christmas layout, so it's temporary, I'll be taking it down af...

I recently began construction on a new model railroad.  I will post a track plan when I start laying track, today I will talk about the ...

First of all, I must apologize once again that I am writing so infrequently. This is not due to a shortage of activity, but actually quite...

Pacific Western Rail Systems recently announced the release of working air brake hoses in HO scale, from their sister company, North Ameri...

I finally started something I have been talking about for a while now - my model railroad. I drew some plans several months ago, and just ...

Today being Wednesday, I would normally reserve this post for some stories from work.  However, nothing particularly unusual has happened ...

Most model railroading articles, whether its on here, in a magazine, or anywhere else, assume that you have a full set of modeling tools and...

Today I am going to walk you through my plan for some Walthers coal cars I ordered recently. They were supposed to be in by now, and I was ...

I thought I would talk a little about the progress on my railroad again today.  While construction of the actual layout has not advance any,...

On the railroads, some freight cars have cushioned drawbars to help protect their load.  They absorb some of the shock of coupler slack runn...

Today I am going to talk about brick structures. There are several different ways to model them, the most common being structure kits molde...