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Don Taschner's HO and HOn3 Scenic Model Railroad

Don Taschner’s HO and HOn3 Scenic Model Railroad

Don's 1950s transition era HO/HOn3 8’x22’ layout features great award-winning scratchbuilt and kit based structures, wonderful running equipment, and dual gauge trackage. The layout has a 130-foot double track standard gauge mainline for steam and diesel operations with an eight track...
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Pete Smith's Loon Lake Railway & Navigation Co. Sn3 Model Railroad

Pete Smith’s Loon Lake Railway & Navigation Co. Sn3 Model Railroad

Experience logging, mining and waterfront operations in Sn3 on this 28’x20’ layout. DC cabs with Soundtraxx controls. Shays and Heislers crawling on code 55 and 70 rail on the loop-to-loop 125-foot mainline....
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Ken Patterson's HO Scale Model Railroad

Ken Patterson’s HO and G Scale Model Railroads

photos by Ken Patterson Description here....
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Curt Regensberger's HO Scale The Streator Connection Model Railroad

Curt Regensberger’s HO Scale The Streator Connection Model Railroad

The Streator Connection models the connecting point of the Santa Fe and Conrail railroads at Streator, Illinois. This 30’x32’ HO scale layout has 32" minimum radius curves, a maximum 1.3% grade, and is a loop-to-loop design with two independent mainlines. The layout features a large f...
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Rene LaVoise's HO Scale Sedalia & Warsaw Model Railroad

Rene LaVoise’s HO Scale Sedalia & Warsaw Model Railroad

The Sedalia & Warsaw is based on a Missouri Pacific branch line in western Missouri extending 43 miles from the connection with the Missouri Pacific at Sedalia to the Osage River at Warsaw. There are four intermediate stations - from north to south they are Mora, Cole Camp, Tahoma and...
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Herb Gilden's Scenic HO Scale Southern Model Railroad

Herb Gilden’s Scenic HO Scale Southern Model Railroad

Herb Gilden's 1950s-era HO scale Hy-Sioux Southern Railroad, set in Tennessee and the Carolinas, was featured in the May 2000 issue of Model Railroader. Extensive scenery and structures populate this walk-in with duck-under design model railroad with DCC Digitrax Empire Builder Radio ...
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Jerry Jungers' HO Scale Western Arkansas Railroad

Jerry Jungers’ HO Scale Western Arkansas Railroad

The Western Arkansas Railroad (the WAR) is a freelance railroad operating primarily in western Arkansas from Texarkana on the south end to Gateway on the north end. Several communities and the industries served are a result of the owner's imagination. It all began in 2008, so it is ve...
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Fred Houska's N Scale Model Railroad

Fred Houska’s N Scale Model Railroad

Fred Houska's completely sceniced N scale model railroad is an around the walls with peninsula design featuring DC control....
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Mike Wise's HO Scale Sugar Creek Valley Model Railroad

Mike Wise’s HO Scale 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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Don Morice's HO Scale Illinois Central Model Railroad

Don Morice’s HO Scale Illinois Central Model Railroad

Don Morice has built an HO scale detailed recreation of the Illinois Central Railroad St. Louis Division in Southern Illinois, Carbondale to DuQuoin, of the 1955-1960 (steam to diesel) era....
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Jay Janzen's HO Scale Santa Fe Model Railroad

Jay Janzen’s HO Scale Santa Fe Model Railroad

Jay Janzen's multi-deck Santa Fe HO model railroad has levels connected by an amazing helix and uses Digitrax DCC control....
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Jeremy Janzen's Santa Fe Model Railroad

Jeremy Janzen’s Santa Fe Model Railroad

Jeremy Jansen's model railroad features photographic backdrops and detailed scenes....
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