Product Reviews
Enjoy our in-depth reviews of great new model railroading products in a variety of popular scales, presented by the Model Railroad News staff. Please contact Editor Tony Cook to have your product considered for review.
April 26, 2023
Athearn Genesis SIECO Boxcar
Athearn’s 50-foot SIECO boxcar is a Genesis release and this Norfolk & Western example is from a late 2022 delivery of these models.
February 17, 2023
Classic Covered Hopper: Micro-Trains Lines’ all-new PS-2 two-bay
Micro-Trains Line adds Pullman-Standard’s PS-2 two-bay covered hopper to the hobby company’s N-scale collection.
January 9, 2023
A Brass Replica of a Classic Kitbash Division Point’s UP Coal Turbine
Model Railroad News kicks off 2023 in a big way with big models, like Matthew Dowd’s review of Division Point’s HO-scale brass UP Coal Turbine.
December 6, 2022
American Flyer’s Texas & Pacific set
This Texas & Pacific set is a special release from American Flyer in S gauge.
November 17, 2022
Big Power for a Little Railroad
Brilliant in red and white Tacoma Rail’s SD70ACe diesel locomotives were recently produced in HO by Athearn for its Genesis series.
October 1, 2022
Micro-Trains Line’s Railroad Magazine series
Railroad Magazine is a featured in a series of releases from Micro-Trains.
September 12, 2022
Chevy’s Downsized Big Car Rapido Trains HO-scale Caprice and Impala
Chevrolet’s downsized Caprice and Impala were radical changes for General Motors and the automobile industry. The smaller versions of Chevy’s “big cars” debuted with the 1977 model year, though the “new” branding rolled on in advertising into the 1980s.
August 18, 2022
Amtrak’s First Half-Century White River Productions’ Fifty Years of Amtrak Trains
White River Productions’ new hardcover release, Fifty Years of Amtrak Trains, A Comprehensive Survey of Amtrak Routes: 1971–2021 by David C. Warner and Bruce Goldberg, includes more than 250 pages documenting Amtrak service during its half-century.
May 28, 2022
Turn a Coal Hopper into a Feed Trough MAC Rail’s HO-scale protein hopper top kit
In June’s Model Railroad News, see MAC Rail’s protein hopper cover kit and find out how easy it is to turn a coal car into this interesting prototype.
April 24, 2022
Freight Car Variety Atlas Master and Trainman releases in N scale
There are several recent releases from Atlas featuring freight car models for N scale.
