Over nearly 40 years I’ve built seven train layouts. I started out with N scale, then discovered large scale trains. I’ve built both indoor and outdoor large scale layouts over the years. I ...

I ballasted the track with Woodland Scenics O scale ballast, using the same methods commonly turned to by those with indoor layouts in smaller scales. I first wet the granules with 70% isopropyl ...

Roanoke’s railroad “Glory Days” may be well in the past. But one aspect of the railroad community is alive and well.

The whole thing is just 5.5″ x 12″. This N-scale layout was three years in the making, mostly because [Peter] was waiting for just the right little powered chassis to come along.

Paul Harbord, member, fixes a derailment on an O scale model train layout during an annual Holiday Model Railroad Exhibit by New York Society of Model Engineers in Carlstadt on December 3, 2022.

From left, team members Gale Treiber, Rich Feller and Paul Cieurzo are in the midst of building a new HO scale model railroad layout for the upcoming show. Wilford Kale/freelance “Our mountain ...

If you’ve always dreamt of building a miniature model railway but don’t quite have the space for one, Peter Waldraff came up with a solution by building a complete four-season N-scale layout ...

Topcon introduces Digital Layout, a simple, easy-to-use building construction software to enable more contractors to adopt a digital layout workflow for increased efficiency, accuracy, and ...

O-gauge refers to the scale of the layout, which is 1:48. Hunterdon County's Northlandz, which claims to be the largest model layout in the world, is HO, is about half of O-scale, at 1:87.

Large Scale Model Railroaders from across the region are at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield for the Northeast Large Scale Train Show. The show features S, O and G scales and ...