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Part 2 of 2 on How to build a RR Tower My work can be also see at the Railroad Museum in Mendota Illinois and Cherry Illinois. After building those two layouts i got burned out severely and did not do much for a while until i built a layout for me (finally)

Lionel Model Train Display @ The MTA Transit Museum Store In Grand Central Part Three Every year, the MTA puts a display of model trains and such in the transit museum store. This year, a 5 car set of R27s, 4 car set of M7-As, The Santa Fe Railroad, New York Central and others were on display!

I don’t have this layout anymore! I got rid of it. So don’t worry about giving me tips.

Part 2 of my detailed look at my world. Check out some of the tools!

Thompson River Canyon is an N scale layout that highlights the rugged mountain regions the Canadian National trains pass through. Filmed at the 2009 Caulfield AMRA exhibition. This layout was owned and constructed by Rod Warren and Vic Fitzpatrick, with John Colliver and Noel Purdey offering assistance with the layout wiring. Rod Warren had his home layout “Santa Fe on the plains in N scale” featured in the October 2009 issue of Model Railroader magazine.

How to scratch build a RR Tower in HO Scale. I needed a tower for my new railyard area and had some supplies laying around and i got busy. I used Styrene plastic (Plastruct brand) for the clapboard siding and used Grandt line windowsa along with some Campbell ones too. If you have an exacto knife handy and some paint you can do this too. Hope this helps somone. Since i had to build the tower i thought i would record it as i went along.

Trains of Thought is a video series about real and model trains. Be sure to check out the other videos in the series. In this video, the C&SFT switchers switch the yard, and trains arrive and depart.

Drove to next town to caught that big EM-1 one more time.

i was at the train show in Quiny Park today and this was the only layout there

Trains of Thought is a video series about real and model trains. Be sure to check out the other videos in the series. In this video, the C&SFT switchers switch the yard, and trains arrive and depart.