Trackside Model Railroading Digital Magazine
Columbia River Gorge Model Railroad in N Scale Visit the Columbia River N Scale Club’s layout modeling the Columbia River Gorge with us this month. The layout includes parts of the BNSF main line in Washington and the Union Pacific main line in Oregon and features beautiful scenes along the river. [...]
Spokane Train Show 2018 Free-Mo HO Scale Club We were at the Spokane Train show last weekend and thanks to Joe we were able to place our 360 VR car on his Chessie System manifest while it ran around the local Free-Mo club. Follow the model train on the club [...]
March 2018 Trackside Model Railroading Digital Magazine The two layout features this March are: Columbia River Club Modeling the Columbia River Gorge in N Scale Mike McGee's Northern Pacific & Stampede Railway in N Scale Order Download or DVD N Scale Club Layout N Scale NP & Stampede Natural [...]
Columbia Gorge Lines Model Railroad in HO Scale We toured the Oregon side of the Columbia Gorge Lines last April. This month, come see the Washington side of the 60x70 foot layout. In this feature, we focus on the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway in the 1950s and have included a [...]
Columbia Gorge Lines Model Railroad in HO Scale Bill Baker's freelanced Oregon & California Railway models the Southern Pacific's Natron Cutoff through the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. In Bill's world, the O&C owns the line and leases it to the SP. You will see mostly SP steam locomotives along with a [...]
Stoney Creek Southern Railroad in On30 Visit WWII-era northeastern Tennessee on Lee Bishop’s Stoney Creek Southern Railroad in On30. The freelanced layout is based on a mythical version of history and has ties to the area’s history. It runs East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad power, hauling commuters from Elizabethton [...]
Camas Prairie Railroad in HO scale The Camas Prairie Railroad operated in northern Idaho and was jointly owned by the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific Railroads. We feature a freelanced version of it this month built in HO scale by the Lewis-Clark Model Railroad Club of Lewiston, Idaho. The club is [...]
We will glue wood veneer “boards” over the plastic boards and weather the car to make it look realistic. Next month, we will show you how to build a custom pipe load using this same car. To customize a car like this one, you will need wood veneer that you can purchase online or at [...]
January 2018 Trackside Model Railroading Digital Magazine The two layout features this January are: Lee Bishop's Stoney Creek and Southern Railroad Lewis-Clark Model Railroad Club's Camas Prairie Railroad Order Download or DVD On30 Scale HO Scale Upgrade and Weather a Bulkhead Flatcar Layouts in the January 2018 Issue Stoney [...]
Jenny and I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas It's almost Christmas, and it looks like the Blumauer Lumber Company has set up a battery box to power some lights on a tree near the tracks. As I stood across the river in Tumwater, no. 53 arrived and it proceeded on the main [...]
