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.
November 9, 2020
Atlas Trainkids Amtrak Acela set
Atlas Trainkids Amtrak Acela set can operate on regular HO track, is battery powered, and includes sound output.
November 9, 2020
Bachmann’s Amtrak Acela Express set in HO scale
Bachmann’s Spectrum line HO-scale Acela Express brings high-speed Amtrak to the starting hobbyist.
October 21, 2020
ScaleTrains.com’s Unique C&NW SD45s
November 2020’s Model Railroad News presents a Chicago & North Western theme. Andy Dorsch reviews the truly unique C&NW SD45 release.
October 16, 2020
Bowser’s Ore Hauling Century
November 2020’s Model Railroad News presents a Chicago & North Western theme. Among the reviews, you’ll see Bowser’s HO-scale C-628 in C&NW livery.
October 5, 2020
Trix’s Big Boy 4014 in HO
The look of a newly restored giant. Trix presents this Big Boy with details to replicate Union Pacific’s contemporary 4014.
September 16, 2020
ExactRail TrentonWorks Bulkhead Flatcar
ExactRail’s Platinum-series Bulkhead Flatcar reproduces a contemporary 67-foot TrentonWorks prototype.
August 25, 2020
Bachmann delivers new baby High Cube
Bachmann’s introduces two new HO-scale high-cube boxcar models.
August 19, 2020
Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s Caboose in HO scale
A special release Athearn Collectibles HO-scale caboose model available from the Colorado Model Railroad Museum.
August 6, 2020
Biggest Ever: 89-Foot High-Cube Boxcar from Tangent Scale Models
Tangent Scale Models expands its line of highly detailed HO-scale freight car replicas with a an 86-foot high-cube boxcar in six roadnames.
July 20, 2020
Rio Grande’s Big Alcos: Broadway Limited Imports N Scale Alco PA-1/PB-1
Rio Grande purchased six Alco passenger diesels in the late 1940s. Broadway Limited Imports produced have the road’s roster with one set (PA-1 and PB-1) and one single (PA-1) release in the road’s four-stripe Aspen Gold and silver livery for its new release of Paragon 3-equipped N-scale models.
