MAY 2024: PIKO America’s much-anticipated diesel-hydraulic locomotive model is May’s cover story review. This early 1960s German-built ML-4000 from Krauss-Maffei was a trend setter in the diesel horsepower race of the 1960s. PIKO America brings the ML-4000 to HO with a highly detailed rendering with DCC and sound. All this and more in the May issue of Model Railroad News!

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May 2024
Vol. 30, No. 5


Product News

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

HO-Scale Reviews

  • German Challenger — Krauss-Maffei ML-4000 from PIKO America
  •  Action Red Rebuild — RS-18u from Rapido Trains
  •  Canadian Railroading for the 2020s — ET44AC from InterMountain Railway Co.
  •  Modern RailGon — National Steel Car 3650 from Aurora Miniatures
  •  Lumbering Giant — NSC Centerbeam from Rapido Trains

N-Scale Review

  • The Little Engine That Could — Whitcomb 65-tonner from PIKO America
  • GP7 Progresses to Sound — from Atlas Model Railroad Co
  • Contemporary Steam — Light Pacific from Broadway Limited Imports

O-Scale Review

  •  Late-Era Rock Island — 50-foot Double-Door Boxcar from Atlas O

Book Review

  • Flour Power — Buffalo Creek Railroad Vol. 2 from Garbely Publishing

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