If you’ve followed Model Railroader’s Facebook page, you’ll probably know that periodically over the past several years, I’ve made posts called “Lunchtime Reading,” which are simply my musings on ...

A scale test car was recently released by Wm. K. Walthers Inc. The HO scale model, part of the manufacturer’s Proto range, features die-cast metal construction, prototype-specific details, and ...

Bill Freyman creates a Door County world of his own photos by KAYLA LARSEN There’s a place in Door County where trains pull into a picturesque Egg Harbor station. A […] ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — Saturday was the 20th annual Model Train and Craft Show at the Charleston Coliseum. Hosted by the Kanawha Railroad Association, the event saw vendors and visitors gather to ...

A train collided with a semi cab stuck on snow-covered railroad tracks in North Carolina. The driver escaped safely before the incident and no one was injured. There’s a big new oil-and-gas merger, ...

The San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum lifted a piece of railroad history back into view on Tuesday. After eight months of careful restoration, a 30-foot historic railroad semaphore is now installed. San ...

Netflix’s hit anthology series “Beef” has unveiled its first glimpse of the upcoming season! “Beef 2” follows the story of a young couple who witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his ...

John Olson, a popular Model Railroader magazine author and photographer from the 1970s through the 1990s, died on Dec. 28, 2025. He was 78 years old. His first MR article, "A day at Mule Shoes Meadows ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Olson carved the "red desert" scenery for his Mescal Lines RR from blocks of polyurethane foam. He wrote about modeling the 4 ...

John Olson carved the “red desert” scenery for his Mescal Lines RR from blocks of polyurethane foam. He wrote about modeling the 4-4-0 steam locomotive Mescalero in the May 1977 issue of Model ...

Abstract: Model-predictive control (MPC) has emerged as a promising control method in power electronics, particularly for multiobjective control problems such as multilevel inverter (MLI) applications ...