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David Bufka's Modern-Era HO Scale Midwest Model Railroad

David Bufka’s Modern-Era HO Scale Midwest Model Railroad

David Bufka's modern-era model railroad is located in a finished 12'x15' attic room in his 100-year-old farmhouse. Union Pacific, Illinois Terminal and BNSF trains pass through the countryside, cityscape, and downtown yard scenes on this HO scale railroad. Dave has been working on his...
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Joe Visintine's HO Scale East Bluff Terminal Railroad

Joe Visintine’s HO Scale East Bluff Terminal Railroad

Joe's freelanced HO scale East Bluff Terminal Railroad models Illinois along the Mississippi river bluffs in 1971. 95' of single-track mainline follows the around-the-walls layout design with a grain complex peninsula, a duckunder at the doorway, and a 13-track single-ended staging ya...
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Prototype Railroading and a Freelance Railroad

Designing a freelance model railroad with heavy Rock Island influence....
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Imagineering

Imagineering

Experience has shown that an awful lot of modeling and operating can occur in a fairly constricted space. By the same token, an awful lot of modeling can be accomplished in a very short period of time and with little or no expenditure of money....
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