New Product HO – Mine Mount Models’ Kooning Rope & Pulley

Mine Mount Models introduces Kooning Rope & Pulley, this is the 19th kit from company. Kooning Rope & Pulley is there when you’re at the end of your rope. Keeping the residents and seamen from all over the region tied up with rope, pulleys, and other boating supplies. It’s an HO-scale structure that can be […]

New Release: HO “Eagle Express” Train Set from Menards

Menards Collectibles offers this Bachmann-made HO-scale starter set just in time for holiday giving. The new “Eagle Express” set is available now (in select stores and online) and comes with a CSX GP40 diesel locomotive, three freight cars, and caboose. This release includes an oval of Bachmann’s E-Z Track, 24 railroad and street signs, 12 […]

New Release: HO “Midwest Limited” Train Set from Menards

Menards Collectibles offers this Bachmann-made HO-scale starter set just in time for holiday giving. The new “Midwest Limited” set is available now (in select stores and online) and comes with a Chicago & North Western F7 diesel locomotive, two freight cars, and caboose. This release includes a circle of Bachmann’s E-Z Track, power pack, and […]

New Release: HO Mine Mount Models Vealtown Mfg. Co.

New Release: HO Vealtown Mfg. Co. kit from Mine Mount Models Mine Mount Models expands its line of craftsman structure kits with Vealtown Mfg. Co. This is Mine Mount Models’ 18th release and the first in the line to serve as a background building. The completed kit occupies real estate on your railroad of a […]

Product Announcement: HO Thrall 86-foot High-Cube Boxcar from ScaleTrains

Product Announcement: HO Thrall 86-foot High-Cube Boxcar from ScaleTrains ScaleTrains announces an all-new Rivet Counter freight car release due in early 2024. The highly detailed replica will provide an early version Thrall 86-foot high-cube boxcar in HO scale. This version (dating from the car’s 1964 introduction in North American railroading) will feature high-mount brake, tall […]

What’s in the Box: Broadway Limited Burlington GP20

HO-scale Broadway Limited Imports EMD GP20 Diesel Locomotive This fantasy scheme Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q) is from Broadway’s second GP20 release delivered in early spring 2023. The hobby company’s initial HO GP20 run included the prototype Chinese Red livery Burlington look, this run offers a “what if” early diesel scheme black with gray look […]

What’s in the Box: HO Athearn Genesis SIECO boxcar

HO-scale Athearn Genesis SIECO 50-foot Boxcar This production of sliding-door boxcars arrived during the latter part of 2022. The model separately applied grab irons, end ladders, and brake wheel on its plastic body shell, with photo-etched metal end crossover platforms. The 4.5-ounce HO freight car replica includes rotating bearing caps on its 33-inch metal wheels […]

What’s in the Box: HO ScaleTrains UP GP30

HO-Scale ScaleTrains Rivet Counter EMD GP30 and GP30B ScaleTrains HO-scale Rivet Counter EMD GP30 diesel locomotive models are out in the wild, these all-new toolings began shipping in March 2023. Here’s a look at Union Pacific examples reproducing a GP30 and the uncommon UP-exclusive GP30B.   This the chassis from ScaleTrains’ HO-scale GP30B in the […]

Zingraff Casting is new in HO from Fos Scale Models

  Fos Scale Models introduces Zingraff Casting to the hobby manufacturer’s line of HO releases. The kit provides materials to create a small brick structure with lots of detail. The roof features a skylight, dust collector, and large sign. Surrounding the building, you’ll receive oil drums, welding tanks, junk-filled dumpster, workbench cabinets, and more. The […]

UP combo-door boxcar coming from Moloco

Moloco Trains announces Union Pacific’s BC-50-5 and BC-50-6 class 50-foot combination-door boxcars. This new HO-scale model is now available for reservations.