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Name: Penn Creek Valley Layout designer: Sam Powell Scale: S (1:64) Size: 16 x 27 feet with a 10 x 10-foot extension Prototype: freelanced Locale: southwestern Pennsylvania Period: 1956 Style: walkaround Mainline run: 180 feet Minimum radius: 36″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2.5 percent Originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2015. Click on […]
Name: Southern Pacific Tehachapi Subdivision Layout designer: Jerry Davis Scale: O (1:48) Size: 28 x 45 feet Prototype: Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Locale: Bakersfield to Mojave, Calif. Era: 1952-1954 Style: multiple-deck walk-in Mainline run: 450 feet Minimum radius: 72″ (main), 66″ (staging) Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2.5 percent Originally […]
Name: Terminal of Toledo RR Layout designer: Doug Tagsold Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 39 x 39 feet Prototype: Toledo Terminal RR, serving Amtrak, Ann Arbor, Chessie System, Conrail, Detroit & Toledo Shore Line, and Norfolk & Western Locale: Toledo, Ohio Period: summer 1979 Style: around the walls Mainline run: 250 feet Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum […]
Name: Washington Northern, Port Andrews Tideflats District Layout designer: Kevin Klettke Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 11′-0″ x 12′-6″ Prototype: freelanced Locale: Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula Era: mid-1990s Style: around the walls Mainline run: 29 feet Minimum radius: 22″ (main line), 18″ (industrial track) Minimum turnout: no. 5 Maximum grade: none Originally appeared in Great Model […]
Name: Wheeling & Lake Erie Ry., Ohio River Division Layout designer: Jim Talbott Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 27 x 44 feet (in three rooms) Prototype: Wheeling & Lake Erie Ry. Locale: southeastern Ohio, West Virginia Period: 2007 Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 115 feet Minimum radius: 30″ (main), 24″ (industrial) Minimum turnout: no. 6, no. 4 in […]
This video describes Coxton Yard on my HO layout, the Wyoming Division of the Lehigh Valley. It covers the design and track plan of the center of operations on the layout, and the system used to classify the freight cars. Video shot by Chuck Davis […]
Here’s a video of realistic uncoupling techniques for model trains using dual magnets on my Lehigh Valley RR layout. Video shot by Chuck Davis […]
This video on the Coxton Yard describes how to use the control panel and how the turnouts are thrown using a diode matrix. Video shot by Chuck Davis […]
Take a cab ride around our HO scale modern Norfolk Southern layout with operating CTC signals. The video was shot with a go pro and a cab picture was added with computer editing software. Video shot by Joshua Clark […]
We wanted our On30 Olympia Logging Co. display-style layout to sound as impressive as it looks, so David Popp decided to install a DCC sound decoder in our Bachmann Climax workhorse. Follow along as he shows how to disassemble the locomotive, solder the decoder and speaker wires, position and test the unit, and then re-assemble […]
We wanted our On30 Olympia Logging Co. display-style layout to sound as impressive as it looks, so David Popp decided to install a DCC sound decoder in our Bachmann Climax workhorse. Follow along as he shows how to disassemble the locomotive, solder the decoder and speaker wires, position and test the unit, and then re-assemble […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page How could we?! Truth be told, we almost forgot to get MRVP’s Jenny Maaske involved in the construction of our On30 Olympia Logging Co. display-style layout. Lucky for us, she was willing to jump right in and get her hands dirty helping Kent […]
