Cabbage for Two

Rapido Trains hosted a dealer open house earlier this month and announced several new products, including models of Amtrak’s NPCU “Cabbage” diesels in HO. In the mid-1990s, Amtrak began a rebuild program to convert retired F40PH locomotives into non-powered control units (NPCUs) by removing the …

Industry leaders on missions to ensure model railroading’s future receive HMA’s top awards

For more than two decades, Larry Price has crafted the country’s most comprehensive youth model railroad program. More recently, William K. Walthers president Stacey Walthers Naffah has changed the dynamic of one of the industry’s oldest and largest companies by encouraging youngsters – and everyone …

ScaleTrains acquires Fox Valley Models, announces upcoming production of N ES44 GEVO, hopper

ScaleTrains announced today that it acquired Fox Valley Models, a small Midwest model manufacturer specializing in HO- and N-scale model trains. It then announced upcoming runs of two FVM N-scale models – the GE ES44 GEVO locomotive and Trinity RD-4 Coal Hopper. Just over a …

Product Review: Athearn NS HO Dash 9-40C

2022 State of Model Railroading: Hobby continues to offer great value, despite concerns over pricing

By TIM BLACKWELL/Cowcatcher Magazine For the second consecutive year, the Cowcatcher has taken the pulse of model railroading, and once again readers believe the hobby is thriving. However, some subtle changes in rating the state of model railroading suggest a little more concern about its …

Red River RPM meet kicks off return of prototype modeler gatherings in Texas and Missouri

Prototype modelers will be out in force in Texas and Missouri in June and July. Saturday’s Red River Railway Prototype Modelers Meet in Forest Hill, TX, is one of two events on tap for rail fan purists and modelers this summer. The event − which …