Click here for our Railfanning Photos at Dover, Delaware
Click here For Stationary Diesel Sound for a Small Layout
What's New On the Website 3/30/2008
Click Here to Find the listing of all the web site articles
Click here to visit our On30 page and find out about On30, 1/4" scale narrow gauge for everyone
Click here to Visit Our On30 Layout Building Articles. We are Chronicling 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
Visit These Rail Events and Layouts
Click on the box to visit our convention coverage
Click here to visit the On30 Pacific Coast Air Line Railway First Photo Album
Heidrick Ag Center Museum
Photo Album Of Vintage trucks and tractors
Click here to visit the  OO/HO 1870's Photo Album
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More Articles can be found on the Website
Click here to go to our layout construction page
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
Eric Larsen used our fur grass web article on his Sn2 modules
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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
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Click here to make realistic background foliage
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Click here to add froth and foam to moving water
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Click here to make tree bark texture
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Click here to make rushing water
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Click here to put a Soundtraxx Tsunami in the On30 Bachmann Mogul
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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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Click here to visit our Main Page for Modeling Oddities and Rubber Gauging
Modeling On30 - O Scale Narrow Gauge for Everyone
The  On30 layout depicting central California in 1905.
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Click here to  make igneous rock formations using ceiling tiles
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Click here to  make oldtime dirt horse roads
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Click here to  make logs
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Click here to  make paper look like rusty steel bands
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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
We are rebuilding the Wagon Road Creek trestle and replacing the HO track on the unsceniced with handlaid track. All this will be covered in future articles.
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Click here to  Visit Stephen Fisher's New On30 Deep Run Railroad
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Click here to  Make On30 Turnouts from Templates
Retracking the On30 4x8
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Click here to  Examine the New On30 Bachmann 4-4-0
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Click here to  Put Larger Drivers on the On30 Bachmann 4-4-0
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Click here to  Make U-Link and Pin drawbars from EZ-Mates
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"You need to count rivets, just not all of them." - - Gluteus Maximus- -
Like the Look of Narrow Gauge but prefer HO. Try HO Turn of the Century Standard gauge. Small locomotives and wooden cars with HO's vast array of items.
Click here to visit our HO in 1905 Page
Why Model 1905-06 in HO Standard Gauge? Click here to read Gerald McGee's excellent article from the January 2002 "Model Railroader"
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Click here to Examine the new Athearn/Roundhouse Oldtime HO 2-8-0
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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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