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My friend Steve Miazga and I have been modeling in N scale for 100 years combined – and what a scary thought that is! We both have medium-sized layouts and run lots of trains, so often we find ourselves in the same quandaries. Lately we’ve been dealing with a problem that has crept up over […]
The layout at a glance Name: Chicago & North Western Memories Layout owner: John Mueller Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 32 x 39 feet Prototype: C&NW Locale: northern Wisconsin Era: 1953 Style: around the walls Mainline run: 230 feet Minimum radius: 24″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 3 percent Benchwork: L girder, open grid, and […]
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The layout at a glance Name: Santa Fe Hereford Subdivision Layout owner: Sammy Carlile Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 25 x 25 feet Prototype: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Locale: between Amarillo, Texas, and Clovis, N.M. Era: summer 1995 Style: multilevel walk-in Mainline run: 225 feet Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: […]
The layout at a glance Name: Midwest & Southern Atlantic RR Layout owner: Dale Martell Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 8 x 22 feet Theme: freelanced Locale: Midwest to western North Carolina Era: 1954 Style: walk-in Mainline run: 78 feet Minimum radius: 24″ (main), 18″ (sidings) Minimum turnout: Peco small radius Maximum grade: 1.5 percent Benchwork: […]
The layout at a glance Name: Marshfield & Old Colony Layout owner: Michael Tylick Scale: On30 (1:48 proportion on 30″ gauge track) Size: 8 x 16 feet Prototype: freelanced Locale: Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island Era: 1920s and 1930s Mainline run: 25 feet Minimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: handlaid, approximately no. 4 Maximum grade: 2 […]
The layout at a glance Name: Toledo, Walhonding Valley & Ohio Layout owner: Associated Model Railroad Engineers of Coshocton Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 40 x 143 feet (layout), 50 x 150 feet (room) Theme: freelanced Locale: southeastern Ohio Era: not specific Style: walk in Mainline run: approximately 967 feet Minimum radius: 42″ (main line) Minimum […]
The layout at a glance Name: Great Northern Cascade Division Layout owner: Lee Marsh Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 12 x 32 feet Prototype: Great Northern Ry., Northern Pacific (trackage rights) Locale: Everett, Wash., and Stevens Pass in the Cascade Mountains Era: 1947 to 1951 Style: island Mainline run: 142 feet Minimum radius: 24″ (helixes) Minimum turnout: no. […]
Modeling a narrow gauge railroad in a small space: Modeling a logging camp requires a variety of structures, trackwork, scenery, figures, and activities. The camp includes not only loggers involved in different pursuits, but also woodchoppers, a laundress, checkers players, engineers and mechanics, stable hands and horses, bears, garbage cans, railroad materials, and more, surrounded […]
When you live in an apartment, as I did when I designed the Southern Ry. Spartanburg Subdivision, you might think you have no space for a layout. But where there’s a will, there’s a right-of-way. My N scale Spartanburg Subdivision is 3′-0″ x 5′-6″ and less than a foot in height. Rather than legs, the […]
Kent Johnson and CTT’s Bob Keller lay it all on the line, as they work to assemble the main line using Lionel FasTrack O gauge components. Watch to see how they plot the course from the plan (printed in the pages of Classic Toy Trains magazine) to the pink foamboard tabletop, and then wire the […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MR’s Cody Grivno lends a hand to our Canadian Canyons N scale layout construction effort. Detailing trackwork is Cody’s forte, so in this video he’ll demonstrate the steps for painting and weathering a main line laid on concrete ties. Plus, he also shows […]
