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A while back there was a thread in which I, in part, touched on the potential for a price increase due to increases proposed between the U.S. and China in their ongoing trade conflict. One poster, seemingly in the know at the time, implied that there would not be any such tariffs imposed on model tr...

A BIT OF GOOD NEWS! Latest news release seen today announces that the NYB&W will be given a new home in a building situated at 258 Hoosic Street in Troy. A street check using Google Earth shows a beautiful modern two-story stone structure on a separate commercial site with on-site off-street par...

Yes, sad to hear. I saw this posted elsewhere several days ago. Unfortunately, I'd be quite surprised to see someone truly suitable buy the company and continue the business. Unlike in years now long past, far fewer hobbyists tinker with/rebuild their equipment - if something breaks now, they just b...

In reference to my earlier post mentioning the Lionel operating hobby shop model, I found the following YouTube video illustrating it functioning. To say the least, it must a virtually unique structure model and likely the most detailed structure Lionel has ever offered! Even for an O-gauge layout ...

Indeed, I saw this announcement elsewhere several days ago, but as with Roger H., hesitated to post anything here until Otto said something regarding it himself. This having taken place now, I offer my sincerest congratulations! The magazine will surely benefit from his future guidance.

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In reference to my earlier post mentioning the Lionel operating hobby shop model, I found the following YouTube video illustrating it functioning. To say the least, it must a virtually unique structure model and likely the most detailed structure Lionel has ever offered! Even for an O-gauge layout s...

But, I'm afraid, that the layout's potential demise is just another example of the hobby's decline in popularity/interest Stateside. I'm sorry to single this out, and my apologies for straying slightly off topic, but the hobby is not dying by any means. I am eighteen years of age and have joined a ...

Indeed, very sad news if this comes to be. I visited the NEB&W several times years ago, as well as following all the articles John - to my mind the greatest modeler except perhaps for the late Art Curren ever - has had published in MR over the years concerning the layout and their employed model...

Slightly off topic, and I apologize... I'm not attempting a thread hijack... But when you mentioned Lionel, I have a distant memory of an early 60's Lionel catalog that pictured O gauge tracks with train on trestle bents, with an HO line running through the bents concentrically below...same loco an...

I agree that the Canyons project layout is particularly lackluster in comparison to many of MR's previous project layouts. It really doesn't seem to have much operating purpose. I really don't consider the current staff as near so creative as pre-2000 individual came up with original ideas for layou...

You are right, George, I regarded the January 2019 MR better only in contrast to the truly disappointing December installment. Like you and as somewhat of a hobby historian myself, I found piece on the Ohio Southern, the first "double deck" designed pike following a John Armstrong idea (wh...

Not sure that this may apply, but I came across an add for a Lionel 0-Gauge accessory that, after a manner, sorta does fit the OP's question. It's Lionel item SKU #6-32998 the Lionel Hobby Shop. An 0-Gauge structure representing a large shop of decades past, behind its show windows are three "o...

As I noted just about one year ago, MR has been showing a consistent decline in circulation for better than twenty years now. The January 2019 issue, listing an accounting of the magazine's readership/circulation only reinforces evidence of this disturbing, long enduring, slide. The number of subscr...

I can not imagine Walthers ever tackling one of the (semi) famous named trains of the East. In nearly every case, what limited fame these trains garnered came during the steam-era with their consists generally being pulled by massive steam locomotives each unique to their particular road. Walthers l...

This concept has indeed been executed any number of times over the years, as has been illustrated in MR and other publications occasional down through the years. Quality (i.e. not cheap "tin-plate") O and #1 Gauge modelers have used N Scale trains to represent "ride-on" garden ra...