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Shoebox Layout Ideas

In Episode 47 of the Cartel Conversations Podcast, the hosts, Ian Holmes and Tom Conboy, introduced the 2024 Micro Model Railway Cartel Challenge. For 2024…

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Pizzatopia – an HOn30 Micro Layout

For the last couple years, the e-magazine The Micro Model Railway Dispatch and the Facebook group Micro Model Railroad Cartel have been hosting an annual…

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Posted in TRAIN ORDERS

SERVO MOUNTING BRACKETS ARE BACK!

After some work on the site, I have the servo mounting brackets available again. The old plugin just stopped working and would take the whole…

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Small Layout Meet 2023

Back in June I managed to take time to travel to Findlay and the 2023 Small Layout Meet. While there I tried to video document…

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Website Issues (again)

I recently had an issue with the eCommerce software I have been using to sell the Servo Brackets. The website kept working to the public…

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Posted in Prototype Railroads Small Layout Design Ideas

Jackson Belt Line, a Small Prototype for Any Era – Part I

Where is the Jackson Belt Line? Although it has “belt line” in the name, the Jackson Belt Line is more of a short industrial branch…

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Small Layout Meet 2023

The Small Layout Meet is Back! June 17, 2023, 10AM – 4PM Northwest Ohio Railroad Preservation, INC12505 C.R. 99Findlay, OH 45840 The meet will be…

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Roundup Time! – How Green is Your Railroad?

While doing research on older prototype railroad scenes from the 1970s and before, it is hard not to notice how green many of the old…

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Posted in Modular Layouts

SmallMR.com is back!!

Well after a month hiatus, I finally have a new server in place and the website is back up and running. The old server had…

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Huron Bay Terminus Railway – Slate Mining in Michigan

There is some question if the “Huron Bay Terminus Railway” actually existed as an entity. For sure there was a 36″ tramway which served the…

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