Model Railroader’s popular special issue, Great Model Railroads, returns for 2025 with 9 all-new masterpiece layouts!
Featuring the best model railroad layouts, stories include detailed track plans, how-to tips from the experts, and modeling ideas you can use.
Articles include:
Well-known modeler and author Andrew Dodge is at it again, re-imagining his Western model railroad as the Downeast Maine Central of Maine.
James McNab updates us on his Hills Line Iowa Interstate model railroad, giving lots of ideas about how to make a model railroad fit into family life and space, as well as how to create realistic scenes on a modern railroad.
Chris Broughton shows how much model railroad can be fit into 4 square feet with his N scale Little River Lumber Co. layout.