The following is a list of magazines which carry articles of interest to model railroaders. Model Railroader and Railroad Model Craftsman seem to be available in most of the hobby stores I've been
to; the others depend partly on where you live and partly on how good the stores.
The bulk of the following magazine listings are from the same source as the bulk of the historical societies, with the same guarantee. The number in parentheses is the number of annual issues.
Corrigenda (and reviews/summaries from readers) are always appreciated.
banen
Postboks 148
DK-4900 Nakskov
Denmark
Four issues peryear. Railways and model railways,
predominantly Danish. In Danish.
BACKpACK
(Fullsize Historical Railway Magazine)
Atlantic Transport Publishers
Trevithick House
West End
PENRYN
Cornwall
p10 8HE
0326 373656
One year UK UKP 17.50
Europe UKP 24.15
US UKP 28.75
BUS WORLD (4)
POB 17018,
N. Hollywood, Ca., 91615
BRANCHLINE, Canada's Rail Newsmagazine
Published by:
BYTOWN RAILWAY SOCIETY
PO Box 141, Station A
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 8V1
CANADA
Published 11 times a year, BRANCHLINE contains news, features, and numerous photographs of railway activities in Canada, both present and past. At 28 pages, it also contains articles from former
railroaders on "life as it was". On a monthly basis, BRANCHLINE details changes in the motive power of Canada's railways, as well as VIA Rail passenger rolling stock. It also provides a monthly
update to the CANADIAN pACKSIDE GUIDE(TM), also published by the Society. Changes in Canadian railway lines are detailed with up-to-date decisions on abandonments from the National Transportation
Agency (NTA).
Subscriptions are CDN$32.00 for one year delivered to Canadian addresses. For deliveries to U.S. addresses, US funds are requested ($32.00). Outside North America, CDN $45.00 for surface delivery, or
CDN $60.00 for air mail delivery.
The BRS also publishes the CANADIAN pACKSIDE GUIDE, the only comprehensive guide to Canadian railways. The 1995 edition is now available. Now in its fifteenth edition, it contains 650 pages,
providing full and accurate up-to-date listings of:
- mainline, shortline and industrial locomotives,
- passenger cars,
- preserved railway equipment,
- urban rail transit equipment,
- cabooses, cranes, spreaders, plows, work service equipment,
- former passenger equipment now in non-revenue service,
- reporting marks used by all North American railways.
- schedules for virtually all passenger train operations in Canada, as well as excursion operations.
Also included as an integral part of the GUIDE is the updated RAILFANS GUIDE TO CANADA (introduced in 1992), which features over 150 pages of maps and detailed listings for every mainline subdivision
in Canada. Each listing includes station names, siding lengths, locations of crossovers, wyes, hot box detectors, and all radio frequencies used on that subdivision. All in the same easy-to-read
format. No photocopies of employee timetables here! Added new for 1996 are listings for railway subdivisions in the United States that CN and CP operate over.
The CANADIAN pACKSIDE GUIDE is available at $17.95 plus $3.50 shipping and handling, plus $1.50 GST when shipped to a Canadian address, from the Bytown Railway Society, P.O. Box 141, Station A,
Ottawa Ontario, CANADA, K1N 8V1. For orders to the U.S., we ask for payments in US funds to cover additional shipping costs.
Further information is available from Dave Stremes at:
ad460@freenet.carleton.ca
BRITISH RAILWAY MODELLING (12)
The Maltings
West St
BOURNE
Lincolnshire
PE10 9PH
UK
0778 393313
UKP 1.70 US $3.95
A reasonably good middle of the road magazine.
<http://www.wgh.co.uk/warners/BritishRailwayModelling.html>
CANADIAN RAILWAY MODELLER
N. Kildonan RPO Box 28103, 1453 Henderson Highway
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R2G 4E9
(204) 668-0168 Voice/Fax
$23.54 for 1 year (6 issues) Inside Canada, $28.00 Outside Canada
Focusses on Canadian prototypes and Canadian modellers.
CLASSIC TOY pAINS for the collector and operator
Kalmbach Publishing Co.
21027 Crossroads Circle
P.O. Box 1612, Waukesha, WI 53187-1612.
US subscription rates are 1 yr $26.50, Foreign $35.
Published bimonthly (but soon to have 2 etra issues each year
beginning December 1995)
Mostly Lionel, Flyer, Some large scale, build, repair, products,
interviews, lots of pictures of toy trains, lots of advertising, etc.
CN LINES (4)
Published by the CN SIG of the NMRA
Interested parties should write Norman Guinard, either at P.O. Box 516, Madawaska, ME, USA, 04756 or his Canadian address; 9 Dube Street, Edmundston, NB, Canada E3V 2G1. Our dues are $16 U.S. for
U.S. addresses, $20 U.S. for UK addresses, $30 U.S. for International adresses and $20 Cdn for Canadian addresses.
Our editorial team attempts to get out our CN Lines publication on a quarterly basis.
As well anyone can subscribe to the following mailing list which is monitored by a couple of our executive members.
A new mailing list has been set up called CNET. This list is for discussions on all aspects (prototype, model railroading) of Canadian National Railway (CN) and family railroads (GT, GTW, CV,
DWP).
To join CNET, send an email message to:
listserv@unl.edu
In the text of the message type:
subscribe cnet Your Name
You will receive a message from the listserv confirming your subscription.
To post a message to CNET, send the message to:
cnet@unl.edu
CNET will be maintained by Russ Watson (rrw@islandnet.com)
and Allen Szalanski (aszalans@unlinfo.unl.edu)
CONTINENTAL MODELER
Peco Technical Advice Bureau
Beer, Seaton, Devon
EX12 3NA, ENGLAND
<URL:http://www.mmcltd.co.uk/cm/>
Covers modelling of European, Australian, African and American prototypes from a British viewpoint.
DIESEL ERA (6)
Withers Publ.,
528 Dunkle School Road,
Halifax, Pa., 17032
3.95/20
EISENBAHN AMATEUR
Buhler Druck AG
Postfach
CH-8027 Zurich
Switzerland
89.- CHF/year international (add 40.- CHF for air mail)
This magazine is mostly in German, with some articles in French. It covers mainly Swiss railways (SBB/CFF and private-owned ones). It has only a small modeling section.
EISENBAHN KURIER (12)
EK-Verlag GmbH
Postfach 5560
Mercystrasse 15
D-7800 Freiburg
Germany
Phone: (0761) 75 033/34, fax: (0761) 75 037
One year: DM 132.-; one issue DM 12.- + postage
Language: German. Around 120 pages, about 60 in colour, 40-45 on model railroading, rest on prototypes, mostly German and Central European, but almost always a section of 6-10 pages from some other
part of the world. Never any track plans, but the pictures of the layouts featured are always top class.
eisenbahn (modellbahn) magazin (monthly) (I don't know exactly how to write this, since modellbahn is in a different, lighter typeface on the magazine)
Alba Publikation
Alf Teloeken GmbH + Co KG
Roemerstr. 9
40476 Duesseldorf
(0211) 4 6901-0
Publication of the Bundesverbandes Deutscher Eisenbahn-Freunde e.V.
As of the February, 1992 issue, it cost 108 DM for a subscription in Germany (120 DM outside Germany). It covers model and prototype issues, with B+W and color pictures and runs about 100 pages.
ELECpIC LINES (6)
NJ International,
77 W. Nicholai St., Hicksville, NY, 11801
3.95/1950;36.75
FLIMSIES (26)
Western Lines Prod.,
POB 6776-W,
Orange, Ca., 92613
1/25/49/72/88/100
GARDEN RAILWAYS
PO Box 61461,
Denver, CO 80206
Phone and Fax (303) 733-4779
Published bimonthly for US$21
(US$28 Foreign) per year.
THE HOME SHOP MACHINIST (6)
Dept z-20, Box 1810,
Traverse City, MI., 49685
800-447-7367
JOURNAL OF CONTAINER pANSPORT (2)
c/o DG Casdorph,
POB 2480,
Monrovia, Ca., 91017
JOURNAL OF PASSENGER pANSPORT (2)
c/o DG Casdorph,
POB 2480,
Monrovia, Ca., 91017
JOURNAL OF RAILWAY TANK CARS (2)
c/o DG Casdorph,
POB 2480,
Monrovia, Ca., 91017
KEY, LOCK %amp; LANTERN (4)
Sandy Van Hoorebecke,
73 Pitch St.,
Bloomfield, NJ., 07003
LGB Telegram (4 times per year)
Buffington Publications
P.O. Box 187
Harrisburg, PA 17108-0187
An English-language publication dedicated to LGB trains. It covers both models and prototypes, and it focuses somewhat more on US prototypes. It has color pictures, no advertising (but it does have
announcements of new products), and seems to run about 50-60 pages. A one-year subscription is $24, and a two-year subscription is $44.
LGB Depesche (4 times per year)
in the US, available through
Buffington Publications
P.O. Box 187
Harrisburg, PA 17108-0187
A German-language publication dedicated to LGB trains and published by LGB. It covers both models and prototypes, and it focuses somewhat more on European prototypes. It has color pictures, no
advertising (but it does have announcements of new products), and seems to run about 50-60 pages. A one-year subscription is $24, and a two-year subscription is $44. (It is also available outside the
US directly from LGB, as I recall.)
LIVE STEAM
Dept z-19,
POB 629,
Traverse City, Mi., 49685
800-447-7367
LOCO REVUE
Editions Loco Revue SARL
BP 104
F-56401 Auray CEDEX
France
320.- FF/year international
This magazine is in French. It covers mainly French railways (SNCF). It has a very good modeling section (how-to, detailing, electronics).
LOCOMOTIVE %amp; RAILWAY PRESERVATION (6)
Interurban Press,
POB 250280,
Glendale, Ca., 91225
818-240-9130
LOCOMOTIVE QUARTERLY (4)
Metaphor,
Dept 1089T,
POB 383,
Mt. Vernon, NY, 10552
MAINE 2-FOOT MODELER NEWSLETTER (6)
6017 W. South Range Road,
Salem, Ohio, 44460
MAINLINE MODELER (12)
Hundman Publ.,
5115 Monticello Dr.,
Edmonds, Wa., 98026
206-743-2607
MJ bladet
MJF
Postboks 149
Skøjen
N-0212 Oslo
Norway
Published by the Model Railroad Association of
Norway. In Norwegian.
MODEL RAILROADER (monthly)
Kalmbach Publishing
21027 Crossroads Circle
PO Box 1612
Waukesha, WI 53187
Phone (800) 533-6644 (subscriptions, open 24 hrs)
(414) 796-8776 (editorial)
1 Yr. $28.95, $34.95 Canada, $39.95 Foreign. Payable in US funds.
(Canada add 7% GST to total)
MODEL RAILROADING (12)
Rocky Mountain Publ.,
2929 Blake Street,
Denver, Co., 80205
2.95/28
MODEL RAILWAY JOURNAL (8)
Wild Swan Publications,
1-3 Hagbourne Road,
Didcot, Oxon OX11 8DP,
UK.
8 issues a year, currently 2.40 UK pounds an issue, postal/subscription rates on application.
The best UK (in the world?) scratch builder/finescale magazine. Very well written, does not talk down, so possibly a bit daunting for beginners, superb photographs. Covers 1:43 to 1:152 scales.
Covers mainly UK prototypes, black and white photos (except very occaisional colour A2 picture), much of the coverage is on techniques and approach to model making, so is applicable outside UK.
MODELLING RAILWAYS ILLUSpATED (12)
Enquiries for subscriptions and backnumbers to
Owen Eyles
5 Riverside Estate,
Berkhamsted Herts HP4 1HL
Phone 01442 979097 Fax 01442 872279
Published by T %amp; S Press Magazines Limited.
MODELLBAHNZEITSCHRIFT (7)
Berthold Weber
Erbsengasse 5
Postf. 1563
D-6092 Kelsterbach
Germany
Phone: 06107/4311, fax: 06107-61771
One year: DM 52.- in Germany; DM 60.- in Europe; DM 70.- in the rest of the world.
Language: German. Around 50 pages, 10-15 with colour pictures, rest black and white. Mostly German subjects. About 10 pages of prototype articles, often with specific modelling advice like suitable
vehicles and so on. Usually two layouts featured, one with text and pictures and one longer article of about 8 pages including a track plan.
MOTIVE POWER REVIEW (4)
c/o DG Casdorph,
POB 2480,
Monrovia, Ca., 91017
MOTOR CARRIER %amp; pUCK pANSPORT JOURNAL (2)
c/o DG Casdorph,
POB 2480,
Monrovia, Ca., 91017
N GAUGE SOCIETY
c/o I. Pulham
4 Russet Close
Stanford-le-Hope
Essex, England SS17 8AH
Sample issue of the N Gauge Journal, published six times per year, available for 2 UK pounds or 5 IRCs. Editor can be reached at shillies@Bournemth.win-uk.net
The N Gauge Society produces 11 wagon kits for members.
<URL:http://www.luna.co.uk/%7Egevans/pages/ngauge.htm>
N SCALE (6)
Hundman Publ.,
5115 Monticello Dr.,
Edmonds, Wa., 98026
206-743-2607
NARROW GAUGE %amp; SHORT LINE GAZETTE (6)
P.O. Box 26
Los Altos, CA 94023-0026
USA
(415) 941-3823
NEW ELECpIC RAILWAY JOURNAL (4)
717 Second St. NE,
Washington, DC, 20002
202-546-3004
5.95/20
NORTHWEST RAILFAN (12)
13118-163rd Av. SE,
Snohomish, Wa., 98290
NpAK NEWSLETTER
2424 Aturas Road,
Atascadero, Ca., 93422
O GAUGE RAILROADING (6)
POB 239F,
Nazareth, Pa., 18064
This magazine is mostly about trains made to run on 3-rail tinplate track, such as Lionel, K-Line, Weaver, and Williams. It contains less material about 2-rail scale trains.
0 SCALE NEWS (4)
P. O. Box 51
Elmhurst, IL, 60126
0 Scale News is *the* magazine among 0 scale modelers.
PACIFIC RAIL NEWS (12)
Interurban Press,
POB 6128,
Glendale, Ca., 91225
818-240-9130
PASSENGER TRAIN JOURNAL (12)
Interurban Press,
POB 250280,
Glendale, Ca., 91225
818-240-9130
PRIVATE VARNISH (6)
"THE MAGAZINE OF PRIVATELY OWNED RAILROAD CARS"
Published for:
The AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PRIVATE RAILROAD CAR OWNERS (AAPRCO)
Interurban Press,
POB 250280,
Glendale, Ca., 91225
818-240-9130
1 yr is $22 to US addresses, $25 outside the US
2 yrs is $41 to US addressed, $47 outside the US
PROTOTYPE MODELER (12)
POB 7032,
Fairfax Station, Va., 22039-7032
RAIL (12)
EMAP Apex Publications,
Apex House, Oundle Road,
Peterborough, PE2 9NP
01733 898100
rail@consumers.emap.com
UKP 1.95)
Modelling supplement called MODEL RAIL, concentrates on British "Modern Image" modelling. The main magazine is current scene prototype.
RAIL CLASSICS (12)
POB 16149,
N. Hollywood, Ca., 91304
818-760-8983
RAIL MODEL DIGEST (4)
Hawkshill Publishing
PO Box 2, Chagford,
Devon, TQ13 8TZ
Tel/fax 01647 433611
(subscription only ukp24.00 for 4 issues - issued quarterly)
cost for overseas not known
UKP 6.45
Concentrates on high quality British modelling, 94
pages of editorial per issue.
RAIL MODEL JOURNAL (12)
Golden Bell Press,
2403 Champa St.,
Denver, Co., 80205
303-296-1600
RAIL SERVICES UPDATE (52)
2110 Sheridan Dr.,
Madison, Wi., 53704
RAIL pAVEL NEWS (21)
POB 9007,
Berkeley, Ca., 94709
RAILFAN %amp; RAILROAD (12)
Carstens Publ.,
POB 700,
Newton, NJ., 07860
201-383-3355
THE RAILFAN PHOTOGRAPHER (2)
POB 2558,
Littleton, Co., 80161-2558
RAILPACE (12)
POB 08855-0927,
Piscataway, NJ., 08854
1 yr is $39 2nd class, $61 1st class to US addresses
$47 2nd class, $66 1st class to outside the US
RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN (monthly)
Subscription Dept. 2610
Box 700
Newton, NJ 07860
Phone (201) 383-3355
1 yr. $25, 2 yrs. $47, 3 yrs. $67, Canada add $6/year, foreign $8/year
RAILS (26)
Texas-Wolverine Co.,
POB 50612/MS101P,
Denton, Tx., 76206
RAILWAY MODELER
Peco Technical Advice Bureau
Beer, Seaton, Devon
EX12 3NA, ENGLAND
THE SCALE COUPLER (12)
Green Lantern Press,
POB 7032,
Fairfax Station, Va., 22039-7032
SCALE MODEL pACTION %amp; pOLLEYS QUARTERLY (4)
c/o Vanishing Traction Prod.,
POB 04016,
Milwaukee, Wi., 53204
"S"CALE RAILROADING (5)
1446 Fremont Av.,
Los Altos, Ca., 94024
TRAINS (monthly)
Same ordering address and phone number as Model Railroader
Deals exclusively with real railroads, both contemporary (the main emphasis) and historical.
1 Yr. $28.95, 2 Yrs. $55 3 Yrs. $78 Extra postage: Canada $17.75 Mexico $18.50 Europe and South America $36.15 Central America $26.20 All other foreign countries $46.20.
TÅG
Box 4175
S-102 64 Stockholm
Sweden
+46-8-84 04 01, fax +46-8-84 04 06 lintag@bahnhof.se
Ten issues per year. Excellent coverage of Swedish subjects, but often also good material on foreign railways. Some model railway coverage. Good articles and photos.
Published by Svenska Järnvägsklubben (The Swedish
Railway Club). In Swedish.
Note: there are MANY books dealing with railroading, both model and prototype, historical and contemporary, various regions, etc., and we simply don't have space for an exhaustive list. I'd like
this to be a short (~20 entries) list of basic books to get somebody started. A one paragraph review would be most helpful.
Steam Locomotive Cyclopaedia
published by Kalmbach.
This is a large (coffee table size) softbound book with a blue cover. They publish a Diesel locomotive companion as well. You should be able to find this book advertised in a "Model Railroader" or a
hobby shop with an interest in model railroading. A good book with photos and drawings (most of which are in HO scale).
Track Planning for Realistic Operation
John Armstrong
Published by Kalmbach
This is an excellent softcover book which introduces you to the issues involved in trying to design your own layout. It discusses enough of prototype railroading to explain why certain track
configurations are common, and how you can incorporate compressed versions in your layout. This has been widely recommended by many people and should be considered a must-read for somebody setting
out to build a layout.