The Home Railway Journal offers past issues while they are still available for the cover price plus shipping and handling. These are the original printings and can help complete your collection or simply give you the material you want.
Unfortunately, nearly all of our past issues have sold out in their printed form. Fortunately, all issues are available in PDF electronic form, and are exactly as they were sent to the printer and mailed. You can print them out at home and read them just as you would any magazine or read them on your screen.
The issues are available in standard volumes in our store which includes all four issue of that volume. If you are interested in single issues or issues from different years, please e-mail me for a quote.
Single copy of the Fall 2009 issue (Vol 4, No. 1): $7.50 plus $1.75 s&h
The Fall 2009 issue includes:
• Crystal River and Animas Pass Railroad, a 4 3/4" gauge pike near downtown Denver
• Making Chips: Machining a smokestack casting
• Project Corner: Using LED lights on your railroad and locomotives
• Tips and Techniques: A wonderful material - aluminum bronze
• Quick Pick: Rail racks
• Layout operations in New York
• Product Review: Working 1 1/2" scale FRED for night running, "It's Lonely at the Top" book on narrow gauge logging
• The latest product news - including new car kits specifically for kids
Single copy of the Summer 2008 issue (Vol 3, No. 1): $7.50 plus $1.75 s&h
The Summer 2008 issue includes:
• The Chipman Central Railroad, a 7 1/2" gauge railway built by a hish-school student
• Project Corner: Building stub switches
• Making Chips: Wheel Stops for your sidings
• Quick Pick: Stopping your trai with a dirt end-of-track bumper
• A machine speed chart for maching various types of metal
• Product Review: Precision Steel Car's ABD brake valve, Deluxe Car and Foundry's air vents, Riding Railkit's 4-wheel switcher locomotive kit
• The latest product news - including a new historic DVD set from IBLS founder Carl Purington's camera of early live steam in the east
FIRST YEAR COMBO PACK: The entire first year (Volume 1) of The Home Railway Journal on CD: $25 with no shipping charge
SECOND YEAR COMBO PACK: The entire second year (Volume 2) of The Home Railway Journal on CD: $25 with no shipping charge
THIRD YEAR COMBO PACK: The entire third year (Volume 3) of The Home Railway Journal on CD: $25 with no shipping charge
Summer 2006 Premiere Issue (Vol 1, Num 1)
The Premiere Issue features:
- • Matt Mason's 1" American River Navigation and Railway layout. As part of the smaller point-to-
point railroad club, Matt shows how a home railroad can be fun even without a continuous
running loop. - • Build a Michigan-California water tower for your railroad.
- • Making inexpensive link and pin couplers for your cars
- • Find out how fishplates (also called joiner bars) got their name
Fall 2006 (Vol 1, Num 2)
The Fall '06 issue features:
- • Peter Moseley and Ron Schmidt's 2 1/2" scale Flintridge and Portola Valley has been built
where many would say it wasn't possible to put a railroad - • Project Corner: Build a real workhorse. This basic firewood log car will haul what it's designed
for and a whole lot more. - • Making Chips: Plans for the Moseley steam regulator for steam turbines
- • Quick Pick: Build a solid block flag stop for your railroad.
- • A quick and easy sander for your rails to increase traction.
- • A product review of the GREX pinner
- • Product news - including Polk Hobby's new entry level train
Winter 2006 (Vol 1, Num 3)
- • Stathi and John Pappas' point-to-point 7 1/2" gauge track using recycled rail and ties as a test
bed for their equipment - • Project Corner: Make a Rail Pup handcar for yourself or your kids
- • Making Chips: Plans for a different type of check valve for your lubricator
- • Quick Pick: Personalize your crossbucks
- • The Basics: We cover the pros and cons of each rideable home railway scale from 1/2" to 1 1/2"
- • Easy to build and install switch frogs machined from bar stock
- • A product review of Victor Shattock's early live steam movies
- • The latest product news - including the new power axles offered on both sides of the Atlantic
Spring 2007 (Vol 1, Num 4)
- • Two home railroads: One 4 3/4" gauge track around a tract home in Los Angeles and a 5000
foot long track that covers two acres in 7 1/2" gauge
• Project Corner: Make an advance throw switch stand
• Making Chips: Plans for a flat front water glass
• Quick Pick: A speeder setout
• The Basics: What ties are available for the home railway
• The latest product news - including the new Friends and Yankee Shop Models being re- - released
Summer 2007 (Vol 2, Num 1)
- • The Vanishing Railroad: A 7 1/2” gauge railroad made entirely from portable track panels that
can appear or go away in a matter of hours
• Project Corner: Add an automatic crossing circuit to your pike
• Making Chips: Don’t just settle for one gauge, make dual gauge axles for any outside bearing
rolling stock
• Quick Pick: Quick and easy pushcars for your speeder setouts
• The Basics: All about rails
• The latest product reviews - including Bryte Rails’ marker and class lights and the Friends
Yankee Shop Models 4-4-0 castings
Fall 2007 (Vol 2, Num 3 - There is no #2 in this volume)
• The Little Orchard Railway, a point-to-point 7 1/4" narrow gauge railway in England
• Project Corner: Make a simple turntable for your layout
• Making Chips: Plans for an easy track leveler
• Quick Pick: A less-than-carload (LCL) team track loading dock
• The Basics: What do you lay the track on?
• Product Review: Cedar Creek's cast iron couplers
• The latest product news - including new 2 1/2" scale marker lights from BryteRails and a new
Insurance provider
Winter 2008 (Vol 2, Num 4)
• The Timber Creek Railroad, a 7 1/2" gauge railway in California's Sierra Nevada
• Project Corner: Paint a backdrop for your railroad
• Making Chips: Make a low-cost, fabricated coupler
• Quick Pick: Manual semaphores for your railroad
• The Basics: Locomotive types and fuels?
• Product Review: Micro Fasteners hex-head screws and "Civil Engineering for Railroads"
• The latest product news - including new plans in 1 1/2" scale for cars and buildings
Spring 2008 (Vol 2, Num 5 - There is no #2 in this volume)
• Bob Thomas' Early 1930's railroad, a 2 1/2" gauge railway that started a lifelong love of trains
• Project Corner: Build a true Gas-Electric diesel engine
• Making Chips: An easy hand tapper for your workbench
• Quick Pick: A train order fork for your engineers
• Anchoring your track with concrete for flood damage prevention
• Product Review: CAD Drawings for the Live Steamer, Reedyville's brass bell, Deluxe Car and Foundry's brake wheels
• The latest product news - including the new steam-outline electric locomotive from Great American Train Company
Single copy of the Summer 2008 issue (Vol 3, No. 1): $7.50 plus $1.75 s&h
The Summer 2008 issue includes:
• The Chipman Central Railroad, a 7 1/2" gauge railway built by a hish-school student
• Project Corner: Building stub switches
• Making Chips: Wheel Stops for your sidings
• Quick Pick: Stopping your trai with a dirt end-of-track bumper
• A machine speed chart for maching various types of metal
• Product Review: Precision Steel Car's ABD brake valve, Deluxe Car and Foundry's air vents, Riding Railkit's 4-wheel switcher locomotive kit
• The latest product news - including a new historic DVD set from IBLS founder Carl Purington's camera of early live steam in the east
Fall 2008 (Vol 3, No. 2)
• The Tat Bank Railway, an English 5" gauge railway in a small lot
• Project Corner: Building wooden passenger cars
• Making Chips: 10 steps to machining wheels on your lathe
• Quick Pick: Beam bridges
• Product Review: Precision Steel Car's Peacock brake wheel, the early home movies of Carl Purinton
• The latest product news - including wheels for Kozo's A3 in 1.5" scale and new 3/4" scale coupler castings
Winter/Spring 2009 (Vol 3, No. 3)
• The Temecula Shortline Railway, 7 1/2" gauge really can go in small places
• Project Corner: Basement train storage
• Making Chips: Building wooden beem passenger trucks
• Quick Pick: Telltales
• Product Review: Bryte Rails' light fixture, "Peter's Railway"
• The latest product news - including wheels for Kozo's New Shay and a new early live steam DVD
Summer 2009 (Vol 3, No. 4)
• The Buckingham Central Railwroad, an interesting 7 1/2" gauge track on flat land
• Making Chips: The Bailie angle valve plans
• Project Corner: A turn of the century flat car
• Tips and Techniques: Compromise rail joints
• Quick Pick: Car chocks
• Product Review: Working 1 1/2" scale gladhands from Kent Bolerjack, "Peter's Railway and the Moonlight Express"
• The latest product news - including a new finescale handcar kit
Single copy of the Fall 2009 issue (Vol 4, No. 1): $7.50 plus $1.75 s&h
The Fall 2009 issue includes:
• Crystal River and Animas Pass Railroad, a 4 3/4" gauge pike near downtown Denver
• Making Chips: Machining a smokestack casting
• Project Corner: Using LED lights on your railroad and locomotives
• Tips and Techniques: A wonderful material - aluminum bronze
• Quick Pick: Rail racks
• Layout operations in New York
• Product Review: Working 1 1/2" scale FRED for night running, "It's Lonely at the Top" book on narrow gauge logging
• The latest product news - including new car kits specifically for kids
