National Model Railroad Association

Z Scale Layouts:

• Altacrest's Marklin Z-Gauge Train Layout: Photos of two Z scale layouts, including building stages. (11/2/97) (Dates shown are original entry dates.)
  
• Animators & Railroads: Animator Jan-Eric Nystrom's adventures in building different Z scale layouts. (7/3/97)
  
• Bjoerkli Railroad: Have you ZZeen it? American style Z-scale layout, amazing wood trestle. Follow the building of a new layout.  (4/5/03)
  
• GNO South Western: Free lance layout by a beginner. Helpful information for those just starting out. Great photography and documentation.  (2/10/03)
  
• Last Chance RRr: My first attempt at a real layout using a lot of trial and error and using many different methods. (9-9-03)
  
• Val Ease Central Railroad:Award winning NMRA Gold Spike Z scale layout built in 3 suitcases. (5/5/01)
  
• Z-Modellbahn Page: Mattern Karlheinz's Z scale layouts. (7/3/97)
  

N Scale Layouts:

• The Adirondack Line: 15'x15' USA prototype multideck layout under construction in the UK based on prototype research. Designed for DCC and operations. (7/9/99)
  
• Adrisport & Codyville Railroad: N-scale layout built on a 36" door; includes photos and information of construction, engines, rolling stock, structures, and operations. (8/27/01)
  
• Albuquerque Carnuel & Tijeras RR: The ACTRR is a 8' X 19.5' ATSF based railroad that interconnects Albuquerque NM to El Paso TX via the Horny Toad Division of the ACTRR. With the main community being the fictitious Kachina NM.(8-12-05)
  
• Amber, Shea & Western Railroad: A freelanced layout with track plan and more. (3/5/99)
  
• Arida Ville N-Scale Layout: I built it in N-scale because of limited space, it replicas from European prototype of both buildings and trains. (7/11/00)
  
• Atlantic New England Model Railroad: A fictitious merged east coast railroad made up of names we liked and maybe didn't.(5/16/03)
• Augsburg & Concord Railroad: An N-Scale freelanced layout. (5/5/01)
  
• Austin Subdivision: Contains photos, history and commentary of the development and construction of this model Railroad based on SP in Central Texas. (11-10-04)
  
• Avalon, Tintagel & Santa Fe Rwy.: Fictional line set in the mountains of New Mexico. Includes track plans, history, module sources and electronic pass. (4/22/00)
• AxD R&R: The AxD R&R is a small N scale layout (a first layout) with very detailed information on how it was built. (11/20/02)
  
• Bare Mountain Railroad: An N scale model railroad located in the state of Fremont (which is, as you recall from school, a very small state!). The site includes several custom built locomotives. (4/3/99)
  
• Beaver Valley Central Railroad: A fictional sub of the GN highline. Site includes photos of the layout. (1/27/01)
  
• Behind The Green Door Railroad: Freelanced N scale model railroad under construction in a 20'x12' room. (1/23/00)
  
• Bill's Railroad Empire: The story and photos of an 11'x3' N scale railroad featuring Bill's Circus, U.S. Army Military, Downtown, and Along the Highway Scenes. Railroad has digital sound and 222 lights.  (3/11/02)
  
• Blue Creek Railroad: A freelanced N-scale layout set in the Blue Ridge Mountains. (9-23-04)
  
• Burnt Hills and Big Flats: The BH&BF is a 14 foot by 15 foot N scale layout in Pasco WA. It is freelanced, but based upon the New York Ontario and Western in a 1970 timeframe. Prototype style operating sessions are held monthly. (6-8-01)
  
• Braunlage - Andreasberger - Eisenbahn: narrow gauge in the Harz mountains (Germany); 16 x 19 feet point to point partially double deck and mushroom upside down.  (5-1-06)
  
• Bryan's Model Allegheny Railroad Page: A site devoted to both the real Allegheny Railroad and a freelanced model version.  (4/13/02)
  
• Canton Division - N Scale Model Railroad: A website dedicated to the planning, construction and operations of my up and coming N Scale Model Railraod located in Saint Paul, MN. (9-13-06)
  
• Charlie's Western Maryland: Photos of my layout plus prototype photos of Western Maryland and CSX. (3/4/99)
  
• Chicago & North Western Tap Creek Branch: A freelanced N scale model railroad set in the American Midwest and inspired by a Model Railroader article.  (2/10/03)
  
• Christophe's Railway World - Le Monde ferroviaire de Christophe: Site is in the French Language. Pictures of my first N-scale Layout of station Chambrelien (Switzerland), of a small HO-scale module and of my new N-scale layout under construction. (5/5/01)
  
• Clinchfield Railroad Blue Ridge Division: I am modeling selected areas of the Clinchfield Railroad between Erwin, TN. and Bostic, NC. (7-26-03)
  
• C&O New River Subdivision: Information for modeling the C&O Railroad in the New River, particularly during the steam to diesel transition era, in N scale. A prior NMRA Webmaster's Choice winner. (6/6/99)
  
• Cooper Creek & Brunswick Railroad: Serves the small rural community of Cooper Creek and the larger village of Brunswick in upstate New York. (10/4/98)
  
• CSXT Shenandoah Division: This web site features the design, construction, and operations of the CSXT Shenandoah Division, a 17' x 43' double-deck N scale model railroad. (3/11/02)
  
• Don's Dream World (DDW): A freelanced layout depicting rural Japan in the transition era.(5-14-04)
  
• Dustball Express: Simon St. Laurent's experience with building an N scale model railroad under his bed. (7/3/97)
  
• Eisenbahn: A N scale German layout with tips and photos. (3/12/00)
  
• Ford City Northern Homepage: Description and photos of basement layout construction. (N-Scale) Also, is a Homepage for a local (Milwaukee, WI) Club. (4/22/00)
  
• Free Model Train Tours: Goes around the perimeter of my apartment. (7-19-04)
  
• FTL Ferrovie e Tramvie Locali: Italian style layout in a garage; based on a free-lance railroad system.  (10/01/01)
  
• Glenn's N Scale G&A Railroad: Pictures of the G&ARR from Mojave, CA. (3/1/98)
  
• Harold Riley's Web Page: Southern California railroading in N scale. (10/4/98)
  
• Welcome to Hillgrove: A UK modern image N Gauge layout depicting a small ficticious market town close to the Herts/Essex Border. (5/5/02)
  
• Island Pacific Railroad: N scale model railroad site located in the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. Lots of pictures. Updated regularly. (3/4/99)
  
• Jerry Britton's PRR Eastern Region: Digitrax-controlled, accurately modeled layout depicting the PRR's Philadelphia, Middle, and Pittsburgh divisions.  (11/20/02)
  
• John's Swiss Railway Site: My N scale Swiss layout with track-plan and photos. Also contains Swiss prototype articles and photos. (7/11/99)
  
• The Kingsbury Branch: Bill Dentons N scale layout based on Milwaukee Roads Kingsbury line in Chicago. As seen in Model Railroader magazine. (5/24/99)
  
• Lake Erie & Ohio Railway: Modular, scenery-oriented layout owned by Peter Maurath and Chris Burchett for display at select TAMR show tables. (3-29-05)
  
• Lahntalbahn in N: Lahntalbahn in scale N (1:160)(5-12-05)
  
• Lode Stone & Iron RR: The Lode Stone & Iron RR is a N scale layout depicting a bridge route along the Colorado River. (5-17-04)
  
• Low Rivers subdivision: Italian built, midwestern layout in N scale. (7/26/02)
  
• MagicMan's N Scale Trains: Follow the construction of a small Canadian National switching layout based in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.  (11/27/02)
  
• Maryland and Western RR Co.: A freelanced version of the Chessie System depicting the area from Baltimore, Maryland to Columbus, Ohio.(6/01/01)
  
• The N-Scale Model Railroad Layout on the Westbank - Harvey, LA: This site displays an N-Scale 4'x8' layout and its ongoing construction. (2/10/03)
  
• Nihon Mokei Tetsudo: Modern Japanese layout project. The overall design of the layout is a large city station scene on one side, with a rural scene on the other side. (4/10/00)
  
• Norfolk Southern Tug Fork Division: I will be showing the construction stages of this layout. (7/11/00)
  
• Norfolk Southern's Pocahontas Division: Take a tour along the in progress empire of Vince Crysler's N scale Pocahontas Division. (9/10/99)
  
• Northern Freight Lines: N scale Glacier Gravel and Sly Stone companies. Northern Ontario, Canada freight lines. (8-6-03)
  
• N-Scale Layout From the Ground Up: Follow an N-Scale railroad from the ground up. (5/5/01)
  
• Nscaler's Model Train Web Site: A portable N scale layout using DCC. Santa Fe and BNSF engines. (5/24/99)
  
• Building the Ontario Western Line: Follow the construction of a 48" x 24" N scale layout. With a divider down the middle, one side is a town, while the other side is a mine. (7-20-06)
  
• Orange Belt Lines: Featured in the May/June 97 issue of N Scale. Home to both the SP and ATSF in the 1940s. (11/8/97)
  
• Pacific Desert Lines: One of the largest N scale permanent layouts in the world and is the home railroad of the San Diego Society of N Scale. (8/27/97)
  
• Pennsylvania RR in N scale: PRR Northern Region operations in N scale, mounted on a 36"X80" door.(5-22-04)
  
• PH & LF RailRoad Association, the Ntrak Dutch Division: The construction of a Ntrak model railroad in The Netherlands. (4/8/02)
  
• Puddington Valley Division of the CPR: It's 1973 and you're in the interior of British Columbia on an imaginary sub of the Canadian Pacific Railway. (4-18-05)
  
• Possum Flats RailWay: 10' shelf layout featuring Bavarian and American scenes. (2/10/03)
  
• PRR Cottingdon-Mochel Branch: An imaginary Coal hauling branch of the PRR with trackage rights for the Western Maryland and B&O. (4/30/02)
  
• San Diego Model Railroad Clubs: Multiple model railroad clubs sharing one building and representing most modeled scales, including N. (5/16/01)
  
• Sandy River & West Forrest N-scale Model Railroad: This is a fictitious American railroad, and the site has picture galleries and How To Do pages. E-pass can be issued as well. (9/27/99)
  
• Sarllac: Beautiful N scale European layout with photos. (11/5/98)
  
• Shady Creek Modular N Scale Layout: A small, but growing, modular N Scale layout with plenty of operation potential. (12/10/01)
  
• Shauns Model Railway Project : Site to record my attempt to build my first proper layout, page for each section and online forum provided. (12-3-05)
  
• Sherlock- A Model Railway: A site including page detailing N scale model railroad. Includes comments on building a US-based layout in England. (7/9/00)
  
• Skookum Logging & Transport: A freelance, N-scale, transition era railroad logging layout, capturing the flavor of the Pacific Northwest transition logging era. (7/11/00)
  
• Smallphry.com - Diary of a layout: An online diary (blog) following the construction of a modern image N gauge UK based layout with DCC control. (4-20-06)
  
• Small World Layouts: A smaller dimension in N-Gauge! Visit, then do get in touch through E-mail or the Guest Book! (2-13-05)
  
• Societa' Lepontina Ferroviaria: An Italian/Swiss N scale bridge line built as a bookshelf layout based on the Jan-Feb '77 Model Railroader article. (1/23/00)
  
• South Western & Pacific Railroad: A fictitious N scale model railroad based upon today's operating practices, motive power, and rolling stock. Featured in Model Railroader. (9/7/98)
  
• The Southview Lines: I am in the process of building my own interpretation of the Norfolk Southern in N scale. (9/12/99)
  
• Superior, Petoskey, & Tahquamenon Village Railroad: Loosely based on the 34 mile long Kalamazoo & South Haven Railroad, which ran between its namesake cities in MI. (10/4/98)
  
• Welcome to Taylorville: 112 sq ft layout with three main tracks with heavy UPRR traffic, also a link to my railroad photography page. (6/22/02)
  
• TBA Railway: An N scale railroad that has been growing in my garage for a few years. (1/23/00)
  
• Tennessee Central Railroad Depot: Modeling and prototype research regarding the Tennessee Central Railway, a shortline fallen flag. (6-20-01)
  
• Tennessee Pass, Colorado: An N scale layout depicting the DRGW's Tennessee Pass line in the period 1985-1993. (6-27-05)
  
• Texas Central Railroad: Bob Batson's freelanced railroad depicting rural Central Texas between Fort Worth and Austin, designed to be an operations-oriented layout, with semi-serious operating sessions. (8/21/97)
  
• Tincup & Western Railroad: A small road operating in western Colorado at the turn of the century. (5/24/99)
  
• Trainsarei's Home Layout: An impressive N scale empire, seven years in the making, using Kato Unitrak and nearly filling a two car garage. (7/18/97)
  
• TraiN'ternet - American Model Railroading In France: American model railroading in France. Prototypes, layouts, DCC, model photography, hints & tips and much more. (French/English) (8/31/00)
• Tuolumne & Sierra Foothill Railroad:  N scale layout serving the lumber and mining industries of the central Sierras in the early 1900's.  (10/01/01)
  
• Union Pacific First Idaho Subdivision: A portable railroad representing the Union Pacific c.1984 in Kemmerer, Wyoming. (7-1-01)
  
• The N Scale Uxbridge Central: A 4x8 N scale freelance layout showing progress while being constructed. (9-6-03)
  
• West Mountain Railroad: My N Scale freelanced shortline, various stages of completion.(6-17-05)
  
• Western Valley Railroad: A small 2'x4' N-scale layout that's giant fun. (5/5/01)

  This section maintained by martinoakes@charter.net updated: March 14, 2008