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Don Ayres' ATSF Los Angeles Division Model Railroad

Don Ayres’ ATSF Los Angeles Division Model Railroad

Don's HO layout, set in 1949 and featuring impressive car and engine facilities, utilizes a 17'x22' folded dog bone design to capture the beautiful mountains and scenic route east of San Bernardino....
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2013 Missouri Botanical Garden “Gardenland Express” Garden Railroad

2013 Missouri Botanical Garden “Gardenland Express” Garden Railroad

The 2013 Gardenland Express Holiday Flower and Train Show at the Missouri Botanical Garden delighted visitors of all ages with G gauge trains traveling along 900 feet of track through a miniature holiday landscape made up of festive decorations and thousands of fresh plants, accented ...
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Bob Sanderson's Illinois Southern Model Railroad

Bob Sanderson’s Illinois Southern Model Railroad

Bob's Illinois Southern model railroad is an HO scale freelance merger of the Illinois Central and GM&O set in southern Illinois in the 1950s. The walk-in, loop-to-loop, single-track layout features a 153-foot mainline run, Digitrax DCC, and a Masonite and drywall backdrop....
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Mike Wise’s Sugar Creek Valley Model Railroad

Details on Mike Wise’s Sugar Creek Valley Model Railroad

Mike Wise’s completely sceniced HO scale model railroad is a walk in loop to loop, single track main, point to point switching district design with a 78-foot mainline run. This freelance layout, set in St. Louis in 1966, features highly detailed city and industrial areas filled with c...
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St. Charles Central Model Railroad

St. Charles Central Model Railroad – St. Charles Model Railroad Club

The St. Charles Central is the large 23'x33' HO scale layout of the St. Charles Model Railroad Club. This completely sceniced, 1970s-era, freelance railroad is set in eastern Missouri and northern Arkansas. If features a 400-foot mainline, over 130 detailed structures, and a Masonite ...
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John Russell's O Scale Rock Island Lines Model Railroad

John Russell’s O Scale Rock Island Lines Model Railroad

John's 2-rail, O-scale Rock Island Lines captures the St. Louis to Kansas City route through the Ozark Mountains of 1948 to 1952. Using an around-the-walls with peninsula Walk-in with duckunder design, the layout has a 170-foot, single-track mainline that regularly runs 35-car freight...
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Bill Wehmeier's Katy, KCS and Wabash Model Railroad

Bill Wehmeier’s Katy, KCS and Wabash Model Railroad

The Kansas City area in the late 60s is represented on Bill's 29’x17’ layout. Red MKT diesels dominate, but there is also a good representation of KCS and Wabash with a little RI also present. A very large city is modeled which contains a scale 450’ steel viaduct. There is also a huge...
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Brian Post's Sierra Nevada and Indian River Railway

Brian Post’s Sierra Nevada and Indian River Railway

Photo gallery of Brian Post's Sierra Nevada and Indian River Railway....
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Kenneth Kroschwtz's Amazing K-10 Model Trains Layout

Kenneth Kroschwtz’s Amazing K-10 Model Trains Layout

Ken Kroschwtz has a huge HO layout filling a 60×81 foot railroad room. The layout includes three major railroads (ATSF, UP & SP) that all interchange with each other, two short lines, and five major industries. The ATSF includes a 255' double track main line and a 19 track yard. The U...
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Bill Linson's Paducah and Lake Erie

Bill’s Basement on YouTube: The Paducah and Lake Erie

Video of the progress on Bill Linson's Paducah and Lake Erie HO scale modern day coal-hauling railroad set in the Allegheny Mountains of southwestern Pennsylvania....
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2012 Missouri Botanical Garden “Gardenland Express” Garden Railroad

2012 Missouri Botanical Garden “Gardenland Express” Garden Railroad

The 2012 Gardenland Express Holiday Flower and Train Show at the Missouri Botanical Garden featured G gauge trains and a streetcar traveling through miniature holiday landscapes from redwood forests to mushroom fantasies, all surrounded with Christmas decorations, wrapped present tunn...
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Bill Giese's Beautiful Rock Island HO Model Railroad

Bill Giese’s Beautiful Rock Island HO Model Railroad

Bill Giese's Des Moines Area Rock Island HO scale model railroad features highly detailed city and industrial scenes filled with cars, trucks and people. The railroad, set in the late 1960s to early 1970s, is a walk-in design with a 76-foot single track main and 24-foot branch line us...
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