Name: Jim Connor Railroad Name: Jim’s Winter Train Room Location: West Chester Scale: G scale and O gauge Theme: Winter Description: A train room I created with a winter theme and a working ski slope […]
Jim’s winter train room

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Name: Jim Connor Railroad Name: Jim’s Winter Train Room Location: West Chester Scale: G scale and O gauge Theme: Winter Description: A train room I created with a winter theme and a working ski slope […]
Check out my fourth video of my Turtle Creek Central O scale narrow gauge (On2-1/2 or On30) double-deck layout. […]
Name: Ian McKechnie Railroad Name: Yule Tree Railway Location: Lindsay, Ontario Scale: O Theme: Christmas/Holiday Description: A series of charming vignettes captured under our Christmas tree in 2015, depicting, among other things, the shipping of candy canes and the delivery of animals to the crèche. […]
This video shows an overview of the process and procedures of working the Iowa Interstate’s Fleur Yard in Des Moines, Iowa. […]
Thomas Klimoski’s HO scale Georgia Northeastern Railroad layout is featured in Model Railroad Planning 2016 and Model Railroad Planning 2018. This video highlights the actions of the Georgia Northeastern Railroad North Local during an operating session. […]
Set in 1970, Mark Dance’s N scale Columbia & Western is a 16′-6″ x 20′-0″ multi-deck walkaround model railroad. A double-mushroom peninsula helps stretch the layout’s main line to 230 feet. Take a tour of this Canadian Pacific model train layout. […]
Name: Ray Hamlyn Railroad Name: Twin Village Location: Burien, WA Scale: O Theme: Christmas Description: As a child who grew up playing with toy trains, a lot of the fun was in making up stories about what was going on in my miniature railroad empire. That approach continues today in our annual holiday layout. The […]
Six weeks of construction in under three minutes; how I built the portable N scale Thompson River Canyon layout in honor of my brother-in-law, who died in October 2014 (before he could create his own version of this iconic Canadian location). […]
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 […]
Using a SoundTraxx Econami ECO-100 Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder and cell phone speaker, modeler Kris Boultbee added sound to his Arnold N scale SW1 diesel switcher. Check out this demo of the locomotive in action on Kris’ model railroad. […]
Name: Dave Condon Railroad Name: Northern Pacific, RS-1 Engine #803 Location: Kirkland, WA Scale: O Scale Theme: North Idaho Division Description: This is an example of a refurbished Atlas 0 RS-1. Basically the engine was non-functional. It stalled on Atlas O 0-54 switches. It barely had a speed control and the sound board was generic. […]
Mini-Gotham is an O-scale skyscraper metropolis complete with subways, El train, trolley and regional rail, both freight and passenger. I combined the tour of the layout with an adventure story about a cat the size of King Kong. Mini-Gotham is located in my apartment in Brooklyn, New York. […]