Hobbies and Pastimes

Model Railroading

Also Known As Railway modelling

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Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas. "Model Railroading." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://home.interactiveatlas.org/hobbies/model-railroading.

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Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas. (n.d.). Model Railroading. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://home.interactiveatlas.org/hobbies/model-railroading

BibTeX

@misc{home,craftsandhobbiesatlas-model-railroading,
  author = {Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas},
  title = {Model Railroading},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://home.interactiveatlas.org/hobbies/model-railroading},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Building and operating miniature railways to scale, from a starter oval to basement empires with working signals and timetables. The hobby folds a dozen crafts into one: carpentry for benchwork, electronics for control, scenery modeling, painting and historical research, all disciplined by standard scales and gauges so equipment interoperates.

Facts

Hobby Class

Making and Building 1

Established When (Circa)

From the carpet railways of the 1840s; the scale hobby matured through the early twentieth century 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

National Model Railroad Association

Source National Model Railroad Association (Wikipedia)

Sources

1. Rail Transport Modelling (Wikipedia)

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National Model Railroad Association (Wikipedia)

Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: National Model Railroad Association, General section

Quote, Associated With: National Model Railroad Association, General section

It was founded in the United States in 1935, and is also active in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

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