Trackside Model Railroading Digital Magazine
Layouts in the September 2016 Issue Free Edition Rio Grande Southern & Denver & Rio Grande Western in On3 This month we visit Jim Reardon’s Rio Grande Southern and Denver & Rio Grande Western layout, featuring the towns of Murphy, Cumbres, and freelanced Nocksville. Jim scratch-built trestles and tunnels from the area and models the [...]
Wishing you all the Hope, Wonder, and Joy that the Season can bring! Happy Thanksgiving! from us at Trackside Model Railroading Trains entering this tunnel by the Cascade River on Mike McGinley's layout will emerge from the other side 200 miles to the east in Paseo. The snow generated in this model [...]
Like many modelers, we have a number of empty gondola cars and are interested in good ideas for a variety of loads. Many modelers make scrap and junk loads, but we wanted something a bit different. We thought making a load of galvanized pipes would be a good use of some of our gondolas, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]