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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...

The Housatonic Railroad - in N scale

This Layout thread will be covering my modeling efforts in building the N scale version of the Housatonic RR (HRRC).

This has been a project...

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....

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...

Reply to Weekend Update for Mar. 14-17, 2025

by alans

A garage/office...

https://realisticmodelrailroading.ne...7777#post37777
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6 hours ago
Weekend Update for Mar. 14-17, 2025

by Paul S.

Please update us what you've done on your model railroad this week/weekend. This weekly thread is intended for us to post snippets about our layout/project...
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18 hours ago
Reply to Northern AT&SF (HO)

by alans

A recent addition. A garage and office building.

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6 hours ago
Comment on Track Planning the Jersey Regional Manufacturers Railway

by BillyJoeBob

Good point, Paul S. Sketches (schemes) tend to expand ideas.
Thanks -- BJB
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8 hours ago
Comment on Weekend Update for Mar. 14-17, 2025

by BillyJoeBob

JerryZ

I think I have missed a beat or two… I enjoy your signal modeling. Could you point me to your ideas on the wiring and use of train...
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8 hours ago
Reply to Weekend Update for Mar. 14-17, 2025

by Adam H

Weathered/tagged this Home Shops coil car for a good friend of mine for use on his HO Scale Union Railroad ...
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9 hours ago

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