Tours & Visits

Visit interesting, scenic, and awe-inspiring toy train layouts in these videos.
Chuck Willey’s homemade culvert unloader

Chuck Willey’s homemade culvert unloader

Christmas in Lionelville

Christmas in Lionelville

Enjoy a visit back to JSM's Lionelville for Christmas 2013. Running on the main line...

Dave Durling’s O gauge layout

Dave Durling’s O gauge layout

A Lionel starter set purchased for Christmas led to this great compact layout. Dave Durling...

Karl Sablich’s O gauge Copper Country Central

Karl Sablich’s O gauge Copper Country Central

Karl Sablich's Copper Country Central recreates the Copper Country of Upper Michigan in 4 x...

Janis Roguskie’s Christmas Lionel Display

Janis Roguskie’s Christmas Lionel Display

The layout is 5 x 9 feet. It features a postwar freight powered by Lionel's...

Richard Coyne’s O gauge Christmas railroad

Richard Coyne’s O gauge Christmas railroad

Visit Richard Coyne's O gauge 15 x 15-foot layout any day of the year and...

Becky Chestney’s Christmas layouts

Becky Chestney’s Christmas layouts

Three layouts are a lot to fit into one article! Enjoy the additional photos of...

David Smith’s O gauge holiday display

David Smith’s O gauge holiday display

David Smith's 4 x 6-foot O gauge holiday display uses a pie-shaped platform to run...

Jay Cain’s innovative O gauge layout

Jay Cain’s innovative O gauge layout

Jay Cain's O-27 empire was one of the last O gauge layouts to be featured...

Painting a GG-1 on Janis Roguskie’s Reading Lines

Painting a GG-1 on Janis Roguskie’s Reading Lines

Frank Knautz’s realistic O gauge layout

Frank Knautz’s realistic O gauge layout

Frank Knautz's compact 11 x 11-foot O gauge railroad features realistic city scenes and landscaping...

Lou Palumbo’s O gauge layout

Lou Palumbo’s O gauge layout

    In addition to writing "Views from the Underground," a popular column in CTT,...

Caryl Pettijohn’s Standard gauge Hollyberry Farm Train Barn

Caryl Pettijohn’s Standard gauge Hollyberry Farm Train Barn

    In the September 2013 issue, visit Caryl Pettijohn's Hollyberry Farm Train Barn, a...

Joe Luciani’s O gauge Luciani Transcon

Joe Luciani’s O gauge Luciani Transcon

The Luciani Transcon presents railroading in the contemporary southwestern U.S. on a 17 x 47-foot...

Kent Johnson’s O gauge Canadian Pacific

Kent Johnson’s O gauge Canadian Pacific

You've seen Senior Editor Kent Johnson's Canadian Pacific layout in a number of how-to articles...

Layout visit: Kent Johnson’s O scale Canadian Pacific

Layout visit: Kent Johnson’s O scale Canadian Pacific

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Jeff Silk’s Mount Marlborough RR

Jeff Silk’s Mount Marlborough RR

    In the September 2013 issue, explore Jeff Silk's stunning 26 x 50-foot O...

Andy Dubill’s postwar O gauge layout

Andy Dubill’s postwar O gauge layout

GG1 in action

GG1 in action

Terry Thompson took a Lionel GG1 in need of some care and brought it back...

Carl Tuveson’s S gauge empire

Carl Tuveson’s S gauge empire