Trains

Apps are all around us these days. Some are helpful, some are annoying, and some are required to just get through our days. As we get used to the idea of an app for everything, you might wonder if there were model railroading apps that would make running trains or building models more fun, or [...] Read More...

BOSTON — The CapeFLYER reached record ridership for the 2026 summer season, carrying 16,045 passengers between Boston and Hyannis, Mass., on weekend trips between Memorial Day and Labor Day, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority announced. The figures represent a 7% increase over the 2025 season, marking the highest [...] Read More...

Tooling up the Hudson River, then following the Mohawk River and the Erie Canal, Amtrak Empire Corridor trains traverse some of the most scenic landscape east of the Mississippi. Along with additional state-supported Adirondack trips to Montreal and Ethan Allen service to Burlington, Vt., Empire Service carried almost 2 million passengers in fiscal 2025. Amfleet [...] Read More...

Few things match the thrill of standing trackside while an earth-shaking freight thunders past. I suspect that this intense, sensory experience has lured many into the wonderful fold of model railroading. I’ve sought to capture this experience on my freelanced O scale 28′-6″ x 56′-0″ Appalachian & Ohio. I wanted my operators to be engulfed [...] Read More...