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Name: Southbay Western Layout owner: Steve Kibort Scale: N (1:160) Size: 8 x 8 feet Prototype: Freelanced, inspired by Denver & Rio Grande Western Locale: Colorado Rockies Era: Late 1950s Style: double-deck Mainline run: 300 feet (including helix and double reversing loop) Minimum radius: 11″ Minimum turnout: no. 5 Maximum grade: 2 percent Benchwork: modular […]
Here is a video that I created of my HO scale layout after shooting some action on the mainline with my Samsung Galaxy. The Rapido Route layout is based on Canadian National and VIA Rail livery operations during the late 1970s and 1980s during a time when I had the opportunity to ride the prototypes […]
Here is a video that I created of my HO scale layout after shooting some action on the mainline with my Samsung Galaxy. The Rapido Route layout is based on Canadian National and VIA Rail livery operations during the late 1970s and 1980s during a time when I had the opportunity to ride the prototypes […]
Discovering Lionel’s finest layouts and other displays […]
Name: Fairhope & Northern RR Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 14 x 22 feet Prototype: freelanced, inspired by New York, New Haven & Hartford Locale: New England Era: 1950s Style: walk-in Mainline run: 84 feet Minimum radius: 26″ (visible track), 22″ (hidden track) Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum grade: 3 percent Benchwork: L-girder Height: 40″ to […]
Name: Santa Fe Scale: HO Size: 30 x 48 feet Prototype: freelanced, inspired by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Locale: Southern California Era: early 1950s Style: walk-in Mainline run: 360 feet Minimum radius: 34″ (main), 26″ (branch) Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main), no. 5 (secondary), no. 4 (branch) Maximum grade: 4 percent Benchwork: open frame […]
This video depicts a fictional journey of a Baldwin 4-6-0 steam locomotive, also known as a “Ten Wheeler,” going once around my free-lanced N scale Susquehanna Valley & Gulf Summit Railway. This class of ten wheeler was originally built circa 1891. The video uses the fiction of the loco having been acquired by the Susquehanna […]
This video depicts a fictional journey of a Baldwin 4-6-0 steam locomotive, also known as a “Ten Wheeler,” going once around my free-lanced N scale Susquehanna Valley & Gulf Summit Railway. This class of ten wheeler was originally built circa 1891. The video uses the fiction of the loco having been acquired by the Susquehanna […]
At the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines station in Cape May, N.J., an RDC1 and Pennsy E6 Atlantic No. 645 share the platform in September 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Wabash E8 1007 brings the Wabash Cannon Ball into Litchfield, Ill., near the beginning of its St. Louis–Detroit run in March 1956. John C. Illman photo […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page The pages of Great Model Railroads 2016 come to life in this MR Video Plus exclusive visit to Stephen Brudlos’ Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific River Subdivision HO scale layout! Follow Steve as he takes you on a guided tour of his […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page The pages of Great Model Railroads 2016 come to life in this MR Video Plus exclusive visit to Stephen Brudlos’ Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific River Subdivision HO scale layout! Follow Steve as he takes you on a guided tour of his […]
