Model Train Building Kits

Model train building kits let hobbyists create structures that fit their railroad, era, and scenery while adding a personal touch through painting, weathering, lighting, and detailing. Whether you're recreating a small rural depot or a busy industrial district, assembling the structure yourself offers flexibility that ready-built buildings cannot.

Browse HO Scale building kits, N Scale building kits, O Scale building kits, and G Scale building kits to find structure kits designed specifically for your layout.

Depending on current inventory, model railroad building kits may include:

• Train stations, depots, passenger platforms, and freight houses
• Factories, warehouses, mills, and industrial buildings
• Engine houses, roundhouses, water towers, coaling towers, and railroad service facilities
• Stores, restaurants, hotels, gas stations, and commercial buildings
• Homes, farms, churches, schools, and municipal buildings
• Fire stations, police stations, hospitals, and other public structures
• Circus, carnival, animated, and specialty building kits

Combining railroad, residential, commercial, and industrial structures helps create realistic communities that support both passenger and freight operations.

Building kits are available in a variety of materials and skill levels. Plastic kits are often a good choice for beginners, while laser-cut wood and craftsman kits provide additional opportunities for customization, weathering, and advanced construction techniques.

Some modelers enjoy assembling structures exactly as designed, while others modify kits with lighting, interior details, signage, paint, and scratch-built additions to create one-of-a-kind railroad scenes.

Trainz regularly carries building kits from manufacturers including Walthers, Woodland Scenics, Bachmann, DPM, Pikestuff, Rix Products, City Classics, Bar Mills, Blair Line, JL Innovative Design, Korber Models, and Campbell Scale Models.

Our inventory includes current production releases as well as vintage, discontinued, collectible, and hard-to-find structure kits acquired from model railroad collections. It's common to find kits that have been out of production for years alongside today's newest releases.

Trainz regularly acquires model railroad collections containing vintage, pre-owned, discontinued, collectible, estate-find, and hard-to-find building kits. Whether you're restoring a classic layout or searching for a long-retired structure, our inventory changes daily as new collections arrive.

Depending on availability, you may find sought-after kits from manufacturers such as Fine Scale Miniatures, Campbell Scale Models, SierraWest Scale Models, Korber Models, DPM, JL Innovative Design, Blair Line, Pikestuff, Rix Products, and other collectible structure kit manufacturers from throughout the history of the hobby.

Trainz purchases model railroad collections that may include building kits, assembled structures, scenery, trains, rolling stock, vehicles, and other layout accessories. Collections frequently include new, pre-owned, vintage, collectible, discontinued, and hard-to-find structure kits from many manufacturers.

Learn more about selling your model railroad collection by visiting Sell My Trains.

What types of model train building kits does Trainz sell?

Inventory may include train stations, depots, freight houses, factories, warehouses, homes, farms, commercial buildings, engine houses, roundhouses, and many other railroad structures.

Do you sell vintage and discontinued building kits?

Yes. Trainz regularly offers vintage, discontinued, collectible, pre-owned, estate-find, and hard-to-find building kits from a wide variety of manufacturers.

What's the difference between plastic and craftsman building kits?

Plastic kits are generally easier to assemble, while craftsman kits often use laser-cut wood, metal castings, or other specialty materials that provide additional realism and customization opportunities.

Do building kits come painted?

Most building kits are intended to be assembled and finished by the modeler, although some may include pre-colored parts. Product descriptions will indicate the condition and completeness of each kit.