For 80 years, Athearn has been a part of the model railroading industry, producing familiar product ranges like HO scale blue ...

Most men of a certain age can remember playing with model train sets, perhaps received from under the Christmas tree or as a ...

Bob Bainter is something of a rules guy. On the job with BNSF, he’s a manager of Operations and Safety Training based out of Cicero, Ill. He’s responsible for ensuring that Transportation ...

Mentoring kids is challenging, rewarding, and fun. There is no doubt in my mind that Model Railroading can provide a solid ...

Knee-jerks are part of business, one of the risks of doing business. As for knees, like most people, I have two of them, and as for jerks, I’ve been one, on occasion. I remember my own knee-jerk after ...

Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) executives on the company's third quarter earnings call moved to dispel any doubt that they are "all in" on switching the company's operations to precision ...

“Precision scheduled railroading” isn’t a household phrase, but even people with little interest in the railroad will recognize signs of it. The commuter waiting longer at a blocked railroad crossing, ...

SHARPSBURG — On Sunday, members of the Hagerstown Model Railroad Museum Inc. at Antietam Station flung open their doors in an attempt to keep love of railroading alive. It was the start of the ...

The first railroad locomotive was fired up and run in Lafayette in 1852 on a new section of track on the line that later was called the Monon and later part of the L&N system between Lafayette and ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Close your eyes and picture this. It’s Christmas morning in the 1970’s and you’re five years old. The morning light begins to crest through your window and you burst from your bed and ...

SHARPSBURG — On Sunday, members of the Hagerstown Model Railroad Museum Inc. at Antietam Station flung open their doors in an attempt to keep love of railroading alive. It was the start of the ...