Tag: featured
Christmas Layout 2018
Each Holiday Season I like to look for a Christmas Layout to feature on Small Model Railroads. This year we are going to take a…
Layout Spotlight – Str Solano
As part of the Rail-Marine theme this month, we present here the model of the Steamer Solano which was present at the 2014 NMRA NCR Division…
Layout Spotlight – Great Lakes HOn30 Modular Group
Each year the Crossroads Village and Huckleberry Railroad holds Railfan Weekend. This year I was able to attend and be part of the SE Michigan Free-mo layout…
Layout Spotlight – Will County Model Railroad Association (WCMRRA)
On a recent trip to Chicago for business, I managed to get time to visit the Will County Model Railroad Association (WCMRRA). I knew of…
Layout Spotlight – Kostlee Brick & Stone RR
This months feature layout is the Kostlee Brick & Stone RR yard by Paul Love. Paul attended the 2014 Small Layout Design Meet and displayed a 24” x…
Layout Spot Light – The Bigfoot Spotters Excursion Railway
Every so often I come across layouts that just, lets just say “scratch that itch”. So it was when I saw the Bigfoot Spotters Excursion…
Small Layout Ideas – The Flong Railway
Here is another look at an interesting prototype railway to model. As with the last article, I hope this will inspire another small layout design….
A Helix in Foam Core
In a previous post we looked at the Brewery Tramway which included a prototype helix. The thought of creating a helix and multilevel layout continued to…
Alan Mueller, Rebuilding the Mantua General
Retail model locomotives for the American Civil War period (1861-1865) are almost non-existent for the HO scale modeler. Many modelers purchase the long discontinued General 4-4-0…
Brewery Tramway
Back in the article Small Layout Inspirations we took a short look at the Guinness Brewery Tramway. That article mentioned that the brewery had a spiral tunnel…
