Click here to visit our On30 page, an index of what is on the site.
Below are a very few of the On30 mechanical topics covered on the website.
Click here to Visit Our Layout Building Articles. We Chronicled our Misadventures in Building an  On30 4x8 Layout
Tooting Our Horn and Squeaking Our Wheel !!!
Our fur grass article was published in the March 2005 Railroad Model Craftsman
Our western brush article was published in the November 2005 Railroad Model Craftsman
Our styrene as weathered wood article was published in the July 2006 Railroad Model Craftsman
Our Party Balloon pond article was published in the September 2006 Railroad Model Craftsman
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Click here for our fur grass article
Click here for our brush  article
Click here for styrene as wood article
Click here for our balloon pond article
The website was the NMRA Webmaster's Choice of October 2006
The On30 4x8 railroad was featured in Kalmbach's "Model Railroad Planning 2007"
Our Kadee centering sprinps as electrical wipers article was published in the March 2007 Railroad Model Craftsman
Click here for our electrical wipers from Kadee
#5 coupler centering springs
Click here to make realistic background foliage
Click here to add froth and foam to moving water
Click here to make tree bark texture
Click here to make rushing water
Click here to put a Soundtraxx Tsunami in the On30 Bachmann Mogul
Click here to Make Realistic grass from Pelted Mink Faux fur
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Click here to Make Grass Clumps from Faux fur
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Our 4x8 page has detailed articles expaining how these scenes were created using common materials and simple techniques. Below are a sampling of the topics.  (Click images to enlarge)
Click here to  make igneous rock formations using ceiling tiles
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Click here to  make logs
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Mike Siggins used our method to make logs
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Our making Realistic Tank  and Barrel Bands was published in the April 2008 Railroad Model Craftsman
Click here to make old time dirt roads
Click here to  Examine the New On30 Bachmann 4-4-0
Click here to  Put Larger Drivers on the On30 Bachmann 4-4-0
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Our making Old TIme Wagon Roads was published in the November 2007 Railroad Model Craftsman
Click here to  make paper look like rusty steel bands
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Presenting the New Age of On30, 1/4" Narrow Gauge for Everyone
Click here for our update on Mogul DCC
Click here to watch the Florida On30  Renegades  Modular Layout at Deerfield Beach, Florida YouTube Video.
This is why we model On30, big locomotives, big sound, HO space and BIG fun.
The only internal combustion is the flame in the fire box.
              --Gluteus Maximus--
Click here to make Link and Pin Couplers from EZ-Mates
Click here to Find Out Why you should Model Narrow Gauge and Why On30
New
Click here to visit
Stephen Fisher's Deep Run Railroad
Our November 2007 Visit Album
Remember when those "snarky rivet counters" down at the the club "kicked sand in your face" and laughed at you, "There are no 30" prototypes for the Mogul and C-16. Those Locos are just made up TOYS." Behold:
Brooks catalog built  1899 Finnish 750mm locomotives that match the Bachmann Mogul and BLI C-16. Yes, bunky, they ain't toys.
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A Finnish built replica (Click Image to Enlarge)
Click here for a short video of that loco in action
Click here for a short video of that loco in action
Click here for a short video of that loco in action
New
Click here to "fix" the hideous BLI-16 tender, we put a Bachmann On30 2-8-0 shell on the BLI frame
Click here to Visit our new Sn3 Modeling on a Budget Website. Sn3 isn't that expensive
Other Things We Find That Are Really Fun