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I've built four HO layouts since retiring from the construction business, and every single one taught me the same painful lesson: the curve radius printed on your locomotive box is about as reliable as a contractor's estimate on a bathroom remodel. That 18-inch minimum they claim? It's technically t …

I've watched this debate rage in hobby shops and online forums for forty years, and I'm going to tell you something that might tick off the purists: there's no wrong answer here. HO scale and N scale are both legitimate choices, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.But that doesn' …

I got hooked on model trains the way a lot of millennials did. My grandfather had a Christmas layout in his basement, and I couldn't stop thinking about those little engines circling through tunnels and past miniature buildings. Fast forward two decades, and I'm running HO scale BNSF freight operati …