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 ...

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....

Ron Schlueter's HO scale San Jose Southern is based on the 1950s Denver & Rio Grande Western at Tennessee Pass, Colorado. The layout uses a linear walk in with lower level staging design and Digitrax DCC control, features 145-feet of mainline with a 3% grade, code 83 rail, and a 30" m...

Gary Hoover's HO Scale Santa Fe is being rebuilt as 1950s era Virginia coal fields on the N&W. Here are some photos of the Santa Fe layout....

Gary Gross' 18' x 12' Franklin Pacific Railroad uses track on three levels connected by two multi-turn helixes to model this St. Louis to Kansas City (or Springfield) Missouri shortline. His completely finished 12' x 26' railroad room features a crew lounge area and a restroom. A typi...

The Pseudo-Soo Line (PSL) is set in north-central Wisconsin in June of 1953. It represents the Third Subdivision of the Gladstone Division of the "Soo." The HO scale PSL is in an approximately 50’x16’ area using an around the wall design with a long center peninsula. The layout uses D...

This golden era layout is a free-lanced shortline railroad with heavy Rock Island influence, running northwest from Lillie, Louisiana, to El Reno, Oklahoma, with the modeled portion ending at Howe, Oklahoma. It also serves as a bridge route for the CRI&P Railroad through El Dorado, Ar...

Our 15th project railroad has a number of differences from our previous model railroad layouts. The other project railroads were given away each year, we plan to keep this one (at least for a few years). The other project railroads had a loop in the plan so the trains could go round a...

The layout was designed with low height structures in the front corners (and no structures in the front middle) to easily see and reach the tracks, cars and turnouts. Larger background structures were placed at the rear (with the tallest in the middle). Two of the buildings (the back ...

The Litchfield layout depicts the ever-gentle rolling countryside of Illinois from Centralia to Chicago. The main room is set in the 50s and 60s era when steam engines were becoming extinct and the "new" diesel locomotives were gaining in popularity. The smaller room is "Chicago." set...

Bob Buschart's large 35'x40', 1950s-60s era, multi-deck HO scale model railroad of the CB&Q and AT&SF in Northern Colorado features multi-cab lash-ups and long trains and is designed for operation....

Phil's goal is to capture the character and surroundings of the ERC&L and BC&G and bring them back alive through his layout. The layout will be a never-ending project and hopefully, a constantly improving one....