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Name: Otter Tail Valley RR Layout designer: Nathan Brett Scale: N (1:160) Size: 10 x 10 feet Prototype: Otter Tail Valley RR Locale: west-central Minnesota Era: 2008 to 2012 Style: around the walls Mainline run: 33 feet Minimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: no. 5 Maximum grade: none This track plan originally appeared in the January […]
Click the image to download a copy of the track plan. Name: Gulf, Illinois & Rocky Mountains RR Layout owner: John-Baptiste Merillot Scale: Z (1:220) Size: 7 x 15 feet Prototype: none; includes locomotives from Union Pacific, CSX, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, among others Locale: Northwestern United States Era: late 1960s to present Style: walk-in, […]
Name: Canadian National Ashcroft Subdivision Layout owner: Scott Lamoureux Scale: N (1:160) Size: 7 x 10 feet Prototype: Canadian National Locale: British Columbia Era: modern Style: around the walls Mainline run: 28 feet Minimum radius: 15″ Minimum turnout: none Maximum grade: none Benchwork: open grid Height: 46″ Roadbed: Woodland Scenics foam Track: code 55 Scenery: […]
Name: San Juan del Oro Layout owner: Eduardo Romo Scale: HOn3 (1:87.1 proportion, 3-foot gauge track) Size: 6 x 10 feet Prototype: freelanced Locale: Southwest Colorado Era: 1932 Style: walk-in Mainline run: 64 feet in two independent loops Minimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2 percent Benchwork: L-girder Height: 49″ to 76″ […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Inspired by a recent Drew’s Trackside Adventures, MRVP’s David Popp aimed to design a layout that highlights the amazing scenery and railroad operation found in Canada’s Thompson and Fraser River Canyons. Ben Lake takes that scheme even further with this 3D rendering of […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Inspired by a recent Drew’s Trackside Adventures, MRVP’s David Popp aimed to design a layout that highlights the amazing scenery and railroad operation found in Canada’s Thompson and Fraser River Canyons. Ben Lake takes that scheme even further with this 3D rendering of […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this exclusive for MR Video Plus subscribers, MRVP’s Ben Lake has prepared a virtual tour of the HO scale Georgia Northeastern RR, a 9 x 11-foot layout featured in MR’s Model Railroad Planning 2016! For more info on the design, be sure […]
People, cars, buildings, and trees are part of everyday life. We’ll add all of these important details to our HO scale project railroad. Model trains are a lot of fun, and having a layout to run them on is even better. However, trains and track in isolation don’t look very realistic. While the scenery we […]
Name: Tehachapi Subdivision Scale: N (1:160) Size: 11 x 13 feet Prototype: Southern Pacific RR and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Locale: Tehachapi Pass and Modesto in California Era: early summer 1995 Style: island Benchwork: L-girder Height: 38″ to 48″ Roadbed: cork Track: code 80 flextrack Mainline run: 75 feet Minimum radius: 17″ (main […]
Good looking scenery includes a variety of layered textures and colors. We’ll take a look at how to build some of those first scenic layers on our HO scale project railroad, including this hillside. Bill Zuback photo You may be surprised to find that the biggest part of building our HO Black River Junction project […]
A Baltimore & Ohio Fairbanks-Morse switcher clatters over the crossing at Black River Junction. Bill Zuback photo A key part of building a successful model railroad is that the project keeps your interest. One way to stay “hooked” when building a layout is to make sure you can run some trains as quickly as possible. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Visit Jeff Ashby’s Chesapeake & Ohio N scale layout in this segment from the hit PBS series Tracks Ahead — available on MR Video Plus before it hits the airwaves! […]
