JUNE 2025: Electro-Motive Division’s odd duck BL2 diesel locomotive is a new HO scale model release from Bachmann Trains. Check out the review of the first release in June’s MRN. Also in this edition, Home Shops presents a Virginian & Ohio General Electric C30-7 diesel locomotive in HO featuring the all-new Rapido Trains model. Bachmann’s all-new N-scale SD40-2 and Atlas’s SD45 are also featured. Check out these in-depth reviews and loads of new annoucements in the June issue of Model Railroad News!

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June 2025
Vol. 31, No. 6


Product News

  • Locomotives & Rolling Stock
  • Vehicles & Loads
  • Structures, Scenery & more
  • Books & more

HO-Scale Reviews

  • A Face Only A Modeler Could Love from Bachmann Trains
  • New Power for Virginian & Ohio from Home Shops
  • A Landmark Alco from Atlas Model Railroad Co.
  • Says Quality Right On It from ScaleTrains
  • Mainline Dash 8s from Walthers
  • Maybe It’s All a Simulationfrom Bachmann Trains
  • N&W’s New Image for the 1970s from Atlas Model Railroad Co.
  • Ready for Your Family Vacation from Oxford Diecast USA

N-Scale Reviews

  • Newly Tooled SD40-2 from Bachmann Trains
  • Back to the Future with All-New SD45 from Atlas Model Railroad Co.
  • Tractive Effort from Atlas Model Railroad Co.

Book Review

  •  Model a New York Branch from Ron’s Books

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