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HO Scale Crawford & Cherokee (Frisco) v3

I was asked to begin a new topic for the "Version 3" build of the Crawford & Cherokee layout here on RMR. This iteration of the layout,...

B&M Micro Layout (HO)

I am building a 12" by 48" micro based (very loosely) on a piece of the Saugus Branch of the B&M that was close to my childhood home. Here...

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 (HO)

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...

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'...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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

by craigtownsend

One thing I won't have to worry about is the color of the sky. It's whatever it wants to be that day.
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17 hours ago
Comment on BN 8th Sub (Issaquah Branch) 1/29 Scale (Outdoors)

by Paul S.

And the sky is. . .cloudy. Yep, typical PNW day!
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19 hours ago
Reply to BN 8th Sub (Issaquah Branch) 1/29 Scale (Outdoors)

by craigtownsend

Ready for primer and paint finally.

Now if I can figure out the color of the building to the left of the yellow one... Looks brown...
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20 hours ago
Comment on Weekend Update for 1/9/26

by Paul S.

That's correct, Craig ( craigtownsend ) and Russ ( Russ C. ). The LokProgrammer is necessary to download a sound project to an ESU decoder. DecoderPro...
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1 day ago
Comment on Weekend Update for 1/9/26

by craigtownsend

Technically you can download the Lokprogrammer program, tweak files as needed and the export the CV values into Decoder Pro and then us Decoder Pro to...
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1 day ago
Comment on Weekend Update for 1/9/26

by Russ C

Ok, so a Lokprogrammer is needed, what I thought any why I don't use ESU.
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1 day ago
Comment on Railroad Commission Photos

by BillyJoeBob

cduckworth -- My thoughts exactly – for a second there ‘I’m all, wait! Did I post…'

When I first saw your original post, my eyes...
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1 day ago
Reply to N Scale CSX Hanover Subdivision 3.0

by Adam H

Another out of the shops, for a follower on my FB page
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1 day ago
Railroad Commission Photos

by cduckworth

Hundreds of images for scenery, weathering, freight cars, yards, etc. You can search on locations, etc. Enjoy.
Charlie

https:/...
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6 days ago
Reply to Railroad Commission Photos

by cduckworth

What I get out of looking at these images from a model railroad standpoint is the weeds, trash around tracks, industrial grime, etc. as a general rule...
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1 day ago

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