Mountains play an important part on the Model Railroader staff’s HO scale Eagle Mountain RR project layout. Associate editor Eric White describes how he used plaster gauze over a cardboard web to ...

Many of us dream of a model railroad empire on a massive scale. While the time, space and resources required usually dictate ...

The evolution of model railroad scenery products has been fun to watch. In prior generations, molded-Styrofoam mountains and scenery mats with dyed green sawdust were considered the norm. Today, we’re ...

Tour the HO scale Union Pacific Geneva Subdivision, Eric Lalonde’s impressive 17 x 25-foot multi-deck modern layout depicting the former Chicago & North Western line between West Chicago and Clinton, ...

Baltimore & Ohio Ridgely Division Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: extension: 8 x 8 feet, entire layout: 20 x 28 feet Prototype: ...

Step 1: Subterrain Before you can put scenery materials onto your layout, you have to have a base for them, often called the subterrain. Even if you're working on a plywood tabletop, or a flat surface ...

NORTHUMBERLAND — Along the Grafton Central Railway, train passengers might catch a glimpse of a nude beach or boys trying to tip an outhouse. Cobourg Model Railroaders member Doug Clark’s large HO ...