About Ross

I am one of the owners at Trackside Model Railroading and I have been into model railroading since I was very young. I model the Burlington Northern in HO Scale but also love the idea of building a narrow-gauge O scale layout one day.

December 2017 Free Edition is now ready online to view.

December 2017 Free Edition of Trackside Model Railroading Digital Magazine This month's featured layouts are: Ry Bates' McCloud River Railroad Chet Wachsmuth’s Northwest Industrial Read Current Free Edition HO Scale HO Scale Layouts in the December 2017 Issue McCloud River Railroad We tell a creative ride-along story on Ry [...]

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Prototype railroad videos we’ve shot while Trackside and enjoying life.

Ross and Jenny are Trackside on the Union Pacific's Ayer Subdivision in Cheney WA. Railfan a Union Pacific train with us in eastern Washington State. We spent a little time out in the August heat to see a mixed manifest with some Canadian Pacific locomotives on it. [...]

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Sam Furukawa’s Sam Juan Scenic Line in Sn3 layout is an amazing railroad.

A double-headed RGS mixed manifest makes its way over the grade as it heads towards Vance. Sam Juan Scenic Line We tour Sam Furukawa’s version of the Rio Grande Southern this month. His layout models the RGS route from Ridgway in the north through Vance, Ophir, and south to Rico. Sam built the layout [...]

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Mike McGinley’s Southwestern Pacific layout is an amazing HO scale layout.

Patched Southern Pacific Geep No. 1480 is on point of the daily eastbound local traveling along the Cascade River. Mike McGinley’s Southwestern Pacific layout operates in multiple different timeframes between 1951 and 2006 in the Southwestern United States, including California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. Trackside Model Railroading photographed the SWP operating in 2006, [...]

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September 2016 Free Edition of Trackside Model Railroading

Did you know you can get Trackside Model Railroading's Free Edition on the 20th of each month. These editions are time limited for those that want to read all about the layouts we feature. Hurry and signup soon to be sure you get your copy. Trackside Model Railroading Page View Here is a [...]

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September 2016 Friday the 23rd

Loggers work in the woods near Ostrander. Here, a Weyerhaeuser Woods Railroad train crosses the trestle on the branch line. ~Trackside Model Railroading Weyerhaeuser Woods Railroad in HO This is Dave Greenwood's Weyerhaeuser Woods Railroad featured from January 2016. It is a freelanced, modern version of the WTCX in HO scale, modeled as [...]

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September 2016

Trackside Model Railroading We launched the first Free Edition! The Free Edition of the magazine will feature the same two layouts each month as the Premium Edition, but it contains less photographs and shorter videos of each layout. We plan to have advertisers support this magazine so if you are a company looking to help [...]

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