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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 ...

This story originally appeared in the December 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. How many of us found something we loved as a ...

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, ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Milwaukee has been a hub for model railroading since the 1930s. It's been home to a major supplier of model railroad kits and model railroad magazines. To this day, it's still ...

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 ...

October 1944. A Modesto barbershop. Bob Brown, 12, falls in love for the first time -- with model trains. As he waits to get his hair cut, he's captivated with the cover of the magazine, "Model ...

In Tuck’s Valley, the chuffing sound of steam and a clanging bell announce the arrival of Santa Fe locomotive 1795. The chuff slows, ending in a hiss as the engine stops, its smokestack as high as the ...

For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...

Did you know Milwaukee is the birthplace of model railroading and continues to dominate in the hobby today? It's true, thanks to W. Walthers, Inc., a family-owned local business that was started in ...

It has always been, and will always be, July 10, 1975 in Ralph S. DeBlasi’s basement. The basement, which DeBlasi of Camden County refers to as his “time machine,” is home to his prototype model ...

Like a lot of baby-boomer kids, Jack Smith had model trains growing up in the 1950s. But unlike most children of the era, he never drifted away from the hobby. Smith, 71, still has his original Lionel ...