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Let's Build the Ashford Tower!
It’s about time for another structure article. Therefore, I’ll be building the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh’s “Ashford Tower” that’s offered by the great, bu… more →
Interacting with Miniature Railroading
Let's Build the Ashford Tower!
Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 1 month ago: It’s about time for another structure article. Therefore, I’ll be building the Buffalo, … more →
Part 3: Atlas Wooden Turntable Goes Steel
Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 2 months ago: To follow this project from the beginning, check out part one and look at part 2 with interest and m … more →
5 Modular Layout Concepts
Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 3 months ago: Using stiff paper cutouts, you can play with modular layout concepts without filling an entire sketc … more →
My Official New Layout Contest!
Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 3 months ago: First of All the Rules and Prizes: The Layout will have to utilize the unobstructed 10X12 foot space … more →
Today, The Highgrove Branch Filed for Abandonment.
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Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 3 months ago: Today, the Highgrove branchline of the fabled Mission Valley & Pacific Railway was approved for … more →
SP Common Standard Turntable from an Atlas Model PART 2
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Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 4 months ago: Now that the concept proved successful, it was time to dive into actual construction. Luckily, I had … more →
Atlas Turntable Kitbash- From Wooden Wonder to SP Common Standard.
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Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 5 months ago: The Atlas turntable has been a staple of model railroading for more than 40 years, and still sells w … more →
Model What Used to Be: Abandoned Trackage.
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Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 6 months ago: Since the beginning of the railroads not every commercial venture between two steel rails has always … more →
The Freight Station Museum in Greeley, CO
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mygrandmasue wrote 7 months ago: Grandpa Ron was wondering why I have not put any TRAINS on the blog yet! He found his December 2008 … more →
Let's Build an HO scale Art Deco building!
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Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 8 months ago: Art Deco was an architectural movement that superceded the Beaux Arts movement in the mid-1920 … more →
Open the Floodgates! Pouring the "Water" for your model scenes.
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Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 9 months ago: This is one of the intangible “thresholds” of modeling that modelers have to work up the … more →
Laying a Riverbed, Step by Step
Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 10 months ago: One of the luxuries you’ll probably have as you build your future riverbed is that you won … more →
How to Make a Scale River, Lake, Harbor, or Just about any other body of Water
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Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 10 months ago: Now that we’ve covered size, shape and color theory of these necessary waterways, let’s … more →
What Is the Best Scale for a Christmas Train Set?
Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 11 months ago: Top 5 Christmas Layout Scales (1 being the most ideal) 5. LGB- Garden Scale Fun! At 1:29 scale, G sc … more →
A New Era of Model Scenery Dawns - Fields are Finally Reailistic
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Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 1 year ago: It has taken 70 years of model making to finally develop what has to be the absolutely perfect scale … more →
Weathered SD-45T-2
Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 1 year ago: In the SPSF merger “Kodachrome” painscheme. It’s HO scale Athearn RTR and It … more →
MBK's new retail space is open for business!
rthoman wrote 1 year ago: We invite you all to visit our retail store in Cockeysville, MD. We have increased the space signifi … more →
The San Jacinto Branch- The Canyon Remodeled.
Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 1 year ago: I was unsatisfied with the unrealistic rockwork I did by hot gluing young sandstone formations into … more →
Never Be Afraid To Re-Model Your Layout.
Author of Interacting with Miniature Railroading wrote 1 year ago: THIS ARTICLE IS GOING TO BE RE-WRITTEN. CHECK BACK SOON. NEW PHOTOS AND TEXT TO COME. I mean it … more →
