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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...

Wichita & Northwestern (HO)

An alternate history / freelance project in HO scale. Set in the late 1980s, the Wichita Northwestern survives beyond the historical ~1940 demise (as...

Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad (HO)

I guess that it is finally time for me to join most of the rest of you and start a layout thread. And less some of you think that I need some spelling...

Northern AT&SF

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

The SPIE RR idea came about from a suggestion of a friend many years after dismantling my SPIDGE RR. Southern Pacific in Dad's Garage. I am the Dad. I...

Crawford & Cherokee (HO) - Robert J. Thomas

The Crawford and Cherokee is an HO scale layout set in Southeast Kansas on the Weir-Pittsburg Coal Field. The layout is a (mostly)...

The Carolina Sandhills Lines (HO)

Hi, Mom! 😃

I’ve been building this layout that I call The Carolina Sandhills Lines for almost six years. I was an N scaler for fifteen...

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...

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...

2nd Sub Burlington Northern Boise Division (N)

I figured I would introduce the group to my n-scale layout and it’s back story. The 2nd Sub of the Boise Division is a proto-freelanced layout based...

Scratched car and six axle trucks

I started this car before I realized no 11' wheelbase six axle Buckeye trucks were available! Being hard headed, I decided to make my own! The car hauled...

The Palisade Canyon Railroads (N)

A west bound Southern Pacific manifest is crossing the Humboldt River near Palisade Ranch in central Nevada.

Hi, I'm new here at Realistic...

Riel and Maëlle’s Model Railroad (N)

I never had a layout thread before so please bare with me and we will see how this goes.

I started this layout about 4 years ago. It is...

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....

The Hills Line - Modeling the IAIS Hills Industrial Spur in HO Scale

Scenes from the IAIS Hills Industrial Spur in HO Scale. More information on The Hills Line at http://thehillsline.com...

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...

Comment on Shelf Layouts

by craigtownsend

This Saturday I should get some of my ops fill by participation in Oly Ops. Local layouts around Olympia. So many people signed up this year they are...
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4 hours ago
Track, down-n-the-dirt

by BillyJoeBob

Fact is, I like bad track. I like looking at it, measuring it, studying it and most of all watching rail equipment move on it. Been dabbling about modeling...
- Channel: Track
1 day ago
Reply to Track, down-n-the-dirt

by Russ C

Bad track? maybe, not class 1, prestine rock ballasted? Definately!
I'm definately in the 'bad track', weedy, dirt track camp.
Love your work...
- Channel: Track
5 hours ago
Shelf Layouts

by craigtownsend

I keep pondering the idea of using a 14' long wall that's alongside one wall in my house for some sort of shelf layout in a smaller scale, say HO or N....
- Channel: Layout Planning and Design: Help Needed
2 days ago
Reply to Shelf Layouts

by michael13j

Craig, I hear the frustration. I agree with RussC. I'd personally continue your current efforts. Lots of time to build rolling stock and superdetail...
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6 hours ago
Reply to Track, down-n-the-dirt

by N Scale Brad

That is some of the best looking bad track I've seen, Great job!
- Channel: Track
6 hours ago

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