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The goal of this six-part layout construction series is to provide new hobbyists with a 4 x 8-foot permanent O gauge layout using contemporary tracklaying, wiring, and scenery-making techniques. Since a toy train set can be a wonderful entry point for new hobbyists, the origins of this logging-themed layout stem from a current Lionel starter […]
This HO scale Baldwin 4-4-0 steam locomotive includes a SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder. Watch us run the Bachmann Spectrum Series model on the Model Railroader club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy (MR&T). […]
Odyssey in O gauge […]
Name: Naugatuck Valley RR 3.0 Layout designer: David Popp Scale: N (1:160) Size: 16 x 17 feet Prototype: New York, New Haven & Hartford RR Locale: Naugatuck River Valley in Connecticut Era: fall 1948 Style: walkaround Mainline run: Waterbury/south 53 feet, Waterbury/north 13 feet Minimum radius: 15″ Minimum turnout: no. 5 Click on the link […]
Name: Bona Vista RR Layout designer: Gerry Leone Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 14′-6″ x 30′-0″ Prototype: freelance Locale: northern Wisconsin and Minnesota Era: 1953 Style: walkaround Mainline run: 200 feet Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 (mainline), no. 5 (spurs) Maximum grade: 1 percent Originally appeared in the Great Model Railroads 2008. Click on […]
Name: Denver Union Terminal Layout designer: Frank Czubryt Scale: O (1:48) Size: 24 x 32 feet Prototype: freelance Locale: Denver to Palmer Lake, Colo. Period: 1980s to present Style: walk-in Mainline run: 96 feet Minimum radius: 48” Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 1 percent Originally appeared in the Great Model Railroads 2008. Click on […]
Name: East Rail Layout designer: Lance Mindheim Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 9′-3″ x 9′-9″ x 16″ Prototype: CSX Locale: Miami, Fla. Era: 2006 Style: shelf Mainline run: 19 feet Minimum radius: 24″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Originally appeared in the Great Model Railroads 2008. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track […]
Name: Logansport & Indiana Northern Layout designer: Tom Johnson Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 24 x 26 feet Prototype: freelance short line Locale: northern Indiana Era: present day Style: around-the-walls shelf Mainline run: 85 feet Minimum radius: 26″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Originally appeared in the Great Model Railroads 2008. Click on the link to download […]
Name: Naugatuck Valley RR 2.0Layout designer: David PoppScale: N (1:160)Size: 16 x 17 feetPrototype: New York, New Haven & Hartford RRLocale: Naugatuck River Valley in ConnecticutEra: fall 1948Style: walkaroundMainline run: Waterbury/south 53 feet, Waterbury/north 13 feetMinimum radius: 15″Minimum turnout: no. 5 Originally appeared in the Great Model Railroads 2008. Click on the link to download […]
Name: Panhandle & Santa Fe Ry. Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 12′-7″ x 33′-0″ Prototype: Third District of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe’s Plains Division Locale: Texas Panhandle, Amarillo to Clovis, N.M. Era: September 1955 Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 102 feet Minimum radius: 29″ Minimum turnout: no. 6, no. 4 in Amarillo Switching District […]
Name: Southern Ry. Layout designer: Bob Lawson Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 24 x 30 feet Prototype: Southern Ry. Locale: central and eastern Kentucky Era: 1945 through the early 1950s Style: walk-in with one duckunder Mainline run: 425 feet Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 8 with some no. 6 Maximum grade: 1.5 percent Originally appeared […]
Name: The Chili Line Layout designer: Steve Amitrano Scale: Sn3 (1:64, 3-foot gauge) Size: 9′-6″ x 11′-6″ Prototype: Denver & Rio Grande Western Locale: Chama and Santa Fe, N.M. Era: mid-1930s to 1950s Style: doughnut Mainline run: 43 feet Minimum radius: 34″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Originally appeared in the Great Model Railroads 2008. Click […]
