Art Williams’ 20 x 65-foot O gauge toy train layout features equipment from Lionel, MTH, Atlas O and more, as well as small-town and industrial scenes. The main level of Art’s O gauge layout boasts a double-track main line extending more than 200 feet. […]
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John Damanskas’ O gauge toy train layout
John Damanskas’ O gauge layout features locomotives, rolling stock, and accessories from Lionel Trains and MTH. The layout also features stunning scenery with mountains, trees, and bridges. […]
Rehab My Railroad Sidetrack: Building a tugboat, Part 1
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In the this sidetrack series of Rehab My Railroad: Jones Island, MR’s Eric White shares some of the plans and processes he’s using to build an HO scale tugboat for the harbor on the MR&T layout. Eric starts by studying photos that inspire […]
Rehab My Railroad Sidetrack: Building a tugboat, Part 1
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In the this sidetrack series of Rehab My Railroad: Jones Island, MR’s Eric White shares some of the plans and processes he’s using to build an HO scale tugboat for the harbor on the MR&T layout. Eric starts by studying photos that inspire […]
Plans for a potato warehouse
Steve Miazga describes how he built a potato warehouse, including modeling mortar rubble walls, for his N scale layout in the July 2020 Model Railroader. See a PDF version of this by clicking here. […]
How to find items in your chosen scale
How to find items in your chosen scale Download the PDF here. Once you have settled on a scale that strikes the right balance for you, you can then begin to assemble the pieces to build your railroad—locomotives, rolling stock, buildings, vehicles, and people. Some manufacturers are good enough to mark the scale of their […]
How to cast plaster rocks for model railroad scenery
David Popp Nothing says “impressive” quite like a rugged mountain range full of jagged rock faces. Though mountains appear solid to us, many are just individual layers of rocks, stacked one on top of another. If you keep this idea in mind, then adding impressive rock features to your layout isn’t a difficult task. Whether […]
How to cast plaster rocks for model railroad scenery
Rubber rock molds and hydrocal plaster make it easy to add exposed rockfaces and other dramatic scenic elements to your model train layout Nothing says “impressive” quite like a rugged mountain range full of jagged rock faces. Though mountains appear solid to us, many are just individual layers of rocks, stacked one on top […]
DIY rock molds from Play-Doh
Use this quick tip to make custom rock molds for realistic model railroad scenery Want to make unique rock castings? Here’s an interesting method that was featured in the March 2002 Classic Toy Trains. Play-Doh, a children’s modeling toy, is a great one-time-use mold-making material. It’s water-soluble, easy to work with, and reproduces crisp details […]
Social distancing comes to the DD&C/M
Name: John Barrett Forum User Name: JohnniebGoode Railroad Name: DD&C/M Location: Sacramento, CA Scale: 4 yr old’s imagination Theme: Was western, but now Disney thanks to 4 yr old Granddaughter Description: Social distancing comes to the DD&C/M. […]
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Video: How to remove the shell from a Rapido Trains HO scale RS-11 and RS-18
We reviewed the Rapido Trains HO scale MLW RS-18 in the June 2020 Model Railroader. The firm produced this video showing step by step how to remove the shell from the model to access the decoder and mechanism. […]
