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Amtrak Celebrates 40 Years

Amtrak Celebrates Forty Years with Traveling Exhibit Train

Amtrak showcased its past, present and future with a special 40th anniversary exhibit train filled with photos, period uniforms, dinnerware, vintage advertising and memorabilia, and interactive displays from Amtrak’s beginning in 1971 through today. View photos from the Sept. 11, 2011...
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Eric Brooman's Beautiful Utah Belt HO Scale Model Railroad

Eric Brooman’s Beautiful Utah Belt HO Scale Model Railroad

The Utah Belt is an expanded version of the original with a similar modern southwest theme. Set in northern New Mexico, the 165-foot mainline runs through desert and mountain scenes. A linear around-the-walls design with a central peninsula is used....
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Bob Boedges' N Scale Fussin & Fumin Model Railroad

Bob Boedges’ N Scale Fussin & Fumin Model Railroad

Bob's N scale completely sceniced modern era BNSF in St. Louis layout features a single track mainline loop with Digitrax DCC control. The layout is located in the lower level of a split foyer home and includes the two-car garage. Bob has monthly operating sessions using a document pr...
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Dave Roeder's Webster Groves & Fenton HO Model Railroad

Dave Roeder’s Webster Groves & Fenton HO Model Railroad

The Webster Groves & Fenton Railroad is a fictional short-line railroad serving as a connection to local industries for the Burlington Northern Railroad in St. Louis County, Missouri. On the WG&F, a switching layout connects the industries of Valley Park, Missouri, via the BN main lin...
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John Schindler's HO Scale St. Louis Junction Railroad

John Schindler’s HO Scale St. Louis Junction Railroad

The St. Louis Junction Railroad focuses on late 1990s era local and industrial switching, including Granite City Steel, in the metropolitan St. Louis area. Interchange and through traffic between the major railroads rounds out the operations....
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Riverport Theme HO Small Model Railroad Layout - Gateway Central XII

Riverport Theme HO Small Model Railroad Layout – Gateway Central XII

Looking for a small but unique HO scale model railroad track plan? The Gateway Central XII offers riverport harbor switching and train operation action, while still providing a complete mainline loop for just running trains. This layout features challenging to build kitbashed structur...
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Lift Bridge and Grain Elevator on the Riverport Small Model Railroad Layouted

Lift Bridge and Grain Elevator on the Riverport Theme HO Small Model Railroad Layout

Photos of the grain elevator, grain loading conveyor, and kitbashed railroad lift bridge on the riverport harbor themed Gateway Central XII train layout....
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Buildings, Tow Boat, and Structures on the Riverport Small Model Railroad Layout

Buildings, Tow Boat, and Structures on the Riverport Theme HO Small Model Railroad Layout

View photos of the riverport layout's tow boat, dock, oil products transfer complex, pickled pepper plant, and other structures....
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Gateway Central VI Paper and Pulp Mill Complex

Gateway Central VI – Another Successful Project Layout

Gateway Central VI HO scale project railroad was designed around two logging industry scenes (one on each side of the layout). One side features a paper and kraft mills with a chip unloading area. The other side is a sawmill scene. The layouts was designed as two pieces that stack for...
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