Set in Southern California, my HO scale layout includes a Southern Pacific train order office surrounded by a desert scene. Although this arid landscape has sparse vegetation, my scene needed two ...

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 ...

Built on four tables, the HO scale Forest River is a freelanced railroad set in Montana in the 1950s. Operating model trains with a good deal of switching is extremely popular, but I prefer watching ...