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This Is What The Las Piedras N Scale Layout Has Been Up To!

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Grand Trunk Southern (N)

A Grand Trunk Southern SD40/SD45 combination lead Manifest 308 northbound over the Clarion River Bridge.

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SP Burbank Branch (N)

In November 2024, I started building a small switching shelf layout based on the Southern Pacific Burbank Branch in San Fernando Valley, California, set...

BillyJoeBob's Train Set

the Jersey Regional Manufacturers Railway

This layout's design is a broad culmination of what I have gleaned from a lifelong hobby - handlaid...

Northern AT&SF (HO)

I've been a fan of the Santa Fe since my first train set with a red and silver F7 as a kid. My layout project is in a basement room that is about 16'...

Oregon Trunk on a HCD (N scale)

Hi all,
I'm new here and figured I should start something about my layout. I'll try to just give an overview in this first post, and then add more...

Southern Pacific in the Inland Empire (N)

This project is now named the Beaumont Hill Subdivision.

The SPIE RR idea came about from a suggestion of a friend many years after dismantling...

N Scale CSX Hanover Subdivision 3.0

New to the site this evening, so figured I'd open up a build thread for my yet to be designed 3.0 layout. I am modeling the CSX Hanover subdivision running...

Missouri Pacific Bagnell Branch (HO) - Charlie Duckworth

Just was recently added as a listee. I started with the Missouri Pacific in 1974 in western Kansas and worked the entire system in our station’s...

Spokane Southern Railroad (HO)

The HO scale Spokane Southern Railroad is my freelanced basement-sized model railroad. The railroad is approximately 11 scale miles long, running between...

White Pine (N)

So A little over a year ago I decided to downsize layouts. I decided to model the end of Wisconsin Central’s White Pine Subdivision in White Pine, Michigan...

BN 8th Sub (Issaquah Branch) 1/29 Scale (Outdoors)

I'm modeling a former NP, then BN, then BNSF, now abandoned branchline out of Seattle, WA. I only have room to model the area of Redmond, and Issaquah....

NKP Freight House in Canton, OH (HO scale)

The modular part of my layout is based on the Canton, OH freight house.

AC&Y - The Akron Service District (N)

Greetings. I've been interested in and working on one version or another of the AC&Y for the last 20 or so years. It's kind of frightening to write...

Southern Railway's Slate Fork Branch (N)

Welcome to Slate Fork Country!

It's late winter 1978. The nation is Star Wars crazy and disco drunk, and a California band...

Comment on Wichita & Northwestern (HO)

by Cody

Nice, is that a kit or a scratch build?
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1 hour ago
Reply to Freelance Painting

by denny99

That's brilliant, Allen. I wasn't aware of this trick, thank you.
I have a couple of old engines I'm not planning to use on the layout. Those can...
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3 hours ago
Freelance Painting

by denny99

I'm thinking about modeling a freelance railroad in the distant future, but what always kept me from trying is painting. Especially complicated paint...
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1 day ago
Comment on Freelance Painting

by denny99

Thanks BillyJoeBob, nice idea! I don't have a favorite railroad (apart from the Espee) I would like to replicate, I don't even have a precise idea of...
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3 hours ago
Reply to Freelance Painting

by denny99

Thanks Russ,

If I ever went freelancing, I think I would set the layout in the late 1980s / early 1990s. It would certainly be a shortline....
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3 hours ago
Reply to Southern Railway's Slate Fork Branch (N)

by Paul S.

I've been teaching myself Adobe Illustrator, and decided that while I was at it, I'd make a map of where the Slate Fork Branch is located. Before I post...
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3 hours ago

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