Visit Richard Coyne’s O gauge 15 x 15-foot layout any day of the year and you’ll find it covered in snow and full of holiday cheer. Richard keeps this holiday layout running all year – he prefers to be called a “Christmas guy” rather than a model railroader! […]
Section: Layout Visits
David Smith’s O gauge holiday display

David Smith’s 4 x 6-foot O gauge holiday display uses a pie-shaped platform to run his toy trains under a full-size Christmas tree. Learn how to build this attractive and compact display bursting with holiday cheer in the December issue. […]
Jay Cain’s innovative O gauge layout

Jay Cain’s O-27 empire was one of the last O gauge layouts to be featured in our sister publication, Model Railroader. This new 12 x 30-foot O gauge layout reflects his wealth of experience in the hobby, along with his artistic and mechanical talents and vast imagination. […]
The HO scale Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie

This is a “track-level” tour of my HO scale Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie RR. It was shot with a Midland “XTC” camera set in a gondola. Video shot by Bob Wundrock […]
Video: Big locomotives on a small HO scale shelf layout

Check out scenes from this North American themed HO scale shelf layout in Germany. You’ll big Union Pacific steam and diesel locomotives. Video shot by Andreas Rindermann. […]
Video: HO scale Union Pacific stack train through central Texas

Union Pacific stack train with DPU running through the finished part (about 1/3) of Per Laursen’s modern HO scale model railroad. The model train layout theme is UP with BNSF trackage rights in east-central Texas. The main city of Waycross is fictional but the other towns Gladewater, Livingston, and LaGrange are made to resemble the […]
Member video: Pulling empties on the HO scale Iowa Interstate

Follow Train DMSW-08 as it pulls two empties from Beisser Lumber in Grimes on the Iowa Interstate’s Grimes Industrial Track. James McNab shot this video on his HO scale Iowa Interstate model railroad. See more of this modern-era model railroad, including a track plan, in Model Railroad Planning 2014! […]
Video: HO scale New York & Long Branch model railroad

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Kevin Surman models the New York & Long Branch RR, a short line that was jointly owned by the Central RR of New Jersey and the Pennsylvania RR, in the late 1950s. Watch passenger and freight trains run through detailed model railroad scenery, […]
Video: HO scale New York & Long Branch model railroad

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Kevin Surman models the New York & Long Branch RR, a short line that was jointly owned by the Central RR of New Jersey and the Pennsylvania RR, in the late 1950s. Watch passenger and freight trains run through detailed model railroad scenery, […]
Video: Allen McClelland’s HO scale Virginian & Ohio K&M Subdivision

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page The K&M Subdivision is the third incarnation of influential model railroader Allen McClelland’s HO scale Virginian & Ohio. The model train layout is actually part of Gerry Albers’ Virginian Ry. Deepwater District. To read about the latest version of the V&O, be sure […]
Video: Allen McClelland’s HO scale Virginian & Ohio K&M Subdivision

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page The K&M Subdivision is the third incarnation of influential model railroader Allen McClelland’s HO scale Virginian & Ohio. The model train layout is actually part of Gerry Albers’ Virginian Ry. Deepwater District. To read about the latest version of the V&O, be sure […]
Russ and Barb Larson’s garden railroad

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this video we visit Russ and Barb Larson’s large scale layout, the Pagosa Springs & Northern. Russ is a former MR publisher and editor, and he and his wife share their beautiful garden railroad, as well as offer some insight into what […]