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Ted Van Pelt’s Sn3 Rio Grande Southern

By | December 20, 2024
Title screen from layout visit video showing steam locomotive and passenger cars passing coal tower and businesses.

In the February 2025 issue of Model Railroader, readers got to learn more about Ted Van Pelt’s Sn3 Rio Grande Southern. The 22 x 22-foot layout, set in Colorado in 1930, features narrow gauge freight and passenger action, many scratchbuilt structures, and photo backdrops of prototype locations in the Centennial State. The walk-in layout has […]

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Youngstown Model Railroad Association’s HO scale layout

By | November 25, 2024
Title screen from layout visit video showing scene from HO scale layout.

In the January 2025 issue of Model Railroader magazine, Contributing Editor Lou Sassi paid a visit to the Youngstown Model Railroad Association, located in its namesake community in Ohio. The club, which has been around for 68 years, has layouts in O and HO scales. Lou’s article focuses on the latter, a 24 x 47-foot […]

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