Spokane Train Show 2018 Free-Mo HO Scale Club We were at the Spokane Train show last weekend and thanks to Joe we were able to place our 360 VR car on his Chessie System manifest while it ran around the local Free-Mo club. Follow the model train on the club [...]
We will glue wood veneer “boards” over the plastic boards and weather the car to make it look realistic. Next month, we will show you how to build a custom pipe load using this same car. To customize a car like this one, you will need wood veneer that you can purchase online or at [...]
January 2018 Trackside Model Railroading Digital Magazine The two layout features this January are: Lee Bishop's Stoney Creek and Southern Railroad Lewis-Clark Model Railroad Club's Camas Prairie Railroad Order Download or DVD On30 Scale HO Scale Upgrade and Weather a Bulkhead Flatcar Layouts in the January 2018 Issue Stoney [...]
Jenny and I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas It's almost Christmas, and it looks like the Blumauer Lumber Company has set up a battery box to power some lights on a tree near the tracks. As I stood across the river in Tumwater, no. 53 arrived and it proceeded on the main [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
From the Publishers April 2017 Thank you to all of you who filled out the questionnaire you were sent. We had a wonderful response rate and we appreciate the feedback. We will be making some changes based on the survey responses and are glad to see what is working and what is not. We [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
