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Matson switcher model railroad operations on the Webster Groves & Fenton Railroad....

The Streator Connection models the connecting point of the Santa Fe and Conrail railroads at Streator, Illinois. This 30’x32’ HO scale layout has 32" minimum radius curves, a maximum 1.3% grade, and is a loop-to-loop design with two independent mainlines. The layout features a large f...

The Winter 2012 quarterly members newsletter of the Gateway Division NMRA, the RPO, is now available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format....

The Sedalia & Warsaw is based on a Missouri Pacific branch line in western Missouri extending 43 miles from the connection with the Missouri Pacific at Sedalia to the Osage River at Warsaw. There are four intermediate stations - from north to south they are Mora, Cole Camp, Tahoma and...

Herb Gilden's 1950s-era HO scale Hy-Sioux Southern Railroad, set in Tennessee and the Carolinas, was featured in the May 2000 issue of Model Railroader. Extensive scenery and structures populate this walk-in with duck-under design model railroad with DCC Digitrax Empire Builder Radio ...

The Western Arkansas Railroad (the WAR) is a freelance railroad operating primarily in western Arkansas from Texarkana on the south end to Gateway on the north end. Several communities and the industries served are a result of the owner's imagination. It all began in 2008, so it is ve...

Fred Houska's completely sceniced N scale model railroad is an around the walls with peninsula design featuring DC control....

Mike Wise's completely sceniced HO scale model railroad is a walk in loop to loop, single track main, point to point switching district design with a 78-foot mainline run. This freelance layout, set in St. Louis in 1966, features highly detailed city and industrial areas filled with c...