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 ...

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 ...

Urban scenery doesn’t require a big space. The HO scale Winston-Salem Southbound, Model Railroader’s 2018 project layout, was a compact urban switching layout that measured 2’-9” x 8’-2”. Learn more ...

The Youngstown Model Railroad Association’s Fall Open House will span four weekends. The club has both an O scale and smaller HO train layout with each featuring more than 100 scale miles of track.

Trains, track, or a command control system can be used more or less straight from the box. Even benchwork, which starts its life as a bunch of boards and sheet goods, can be assembled with minimal ...