Show us your newest locomotive or rolling stock purchase. Scale...Traditional...Tinplate...whatever. My newest locomotive purchase was this Lionel Legacy Toledo, Peoria & Western GP30 #700 in bicentennial paint...

Here at the Model Train Forum we have an automatic spam detector to help keep the boards clean... Unfortunately it is not 100% perfect or fool-proof, so sometimes a legitimate post is hidden from view and needs to be approved by a moderator before it actually shows up on the forum... If this...

I am starting this thread in hopes that it will catch on. About 10 years ago I was a moderator for a diecast forum and I started a thread like this one and it carried on for years. This will be a thread where the members will post one pic each day when possible. We all like pics. Most of us are...

Hi everyone, Welcome to Model Train Forum, a brand new Internet discussion site for one of the world's greatest hobbies. My name is John (screenname: tworail) and I am the admin for this site. I hope it becomes a great online destination for model railroading, and keep an eye on the site as...

Has anyone ever encountered one of those awful sellers that show you pics and give a description of an item, but send it in a horrible state? I bought a 2-8-0 Consolidation, and when it finally arrived it was wrecked! Gears were shot, bell missing, wheels binding, scratched paintwork, steps on...