A Club Layout Tour and more featured scenes
Whether it’s a busy transition-era mainline or a street corner along a modern urban line, one of the most compelling things about a model railroad is the story it tells. Adding lights to structures and equipment, carefully selecting figures and vehicles appropriate for a specific time period, or meticulously detailing a car to look like its real-world counterpart, all add to the drama and keep layout visitors coming back for a second look. Enjoy these featured projects shared by your fellow hobbyists on our social media pages.
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Open All Night
Workers at the paper company or on the railroad know they can always grab a bite to eat at this corner café no matter the time of day or night. Andy Gautrey used animated signs, interior and exterior lighting and other details to bring this HO scale city block to life. |
Freelanced Favorites
In model railroad terms, “freelancing” is when you base a layout on a fictional railroad rather than a specific real-world prototype. One of the most fun aspects to freelancing is that you can set up a roster of your favorite locomotives and invent your own unique paint schemes. Poster @waynesville_terminal_railr shared this photo of weathered switchers and road power on his namesake line.
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Club Layout Tour
Follow a train through the picturesque New England landscape at the North Conway Model RR Club in North Conway, NH. The club models the transition era, so both steam and diesel locomotives haul tonnage along the main. Click on the white arrows to view all the scenes and watch a video.
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Patched and tagged
Like many veteran rail cars, decades of service have left its mark on this hi-cube boxcar. Along with some fresh SSW reporting marks, some artists along the line have added their own splashes of color atop the grime. Joseph Martinez weathered and custom decorated this HO scale model.
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