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Ben Bruno's Hell Gate and Golden Gate RR
This is the second go-round for Ben who has a purpose-built hobby building with a basement measuring more than 40x40 feet devoted to his...


Luke Petersen's UP Blair Subdivision
Luke and I packed a lot of railroad into a modest room-sized space thanks to a helix used as "car sink" staging for both ends of the...


Bill Mosteller's Virginian Rwy.
Bill wanted an operations-oriented version of his beloved Virginian Railway, hampered somewhat by the inconvenient positioning of doors...


Cliff Hurd's Toledo, Peoria, & Western
Cliff remembers riding with his grandfather who was an engineer on the eastern half of the TP&W in Indiana and Ohio. Now he wants to...


Don Garrison's Illinois Central Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois rivals the Reading in Central Pennsylvania as the prototype to which I return the most, having done plans based on the...


Ken Whipple's Canadian Pacific in the Rockies
Another repeat prototype since I did CP in the Rockies for Jeff Stuparyk in N Scale; however, Ken Whipple's version in HO is for the...


Scott Ebersole's Roaring Creek Valley Railroad
This is a relatively straightforward pike inspired by the Catawissa RR in Pennsylvania. Scott is not a big operator but this has enough...


Mike Toberman's Chicago & Northwestern
Mike wanted five completely independent loops of track so that he could mostly "watch them run" without the complications of DCC or block...


Simon Hunt's Canadian Pacific
Big ambitions—to evoke the Canadian Pacific's crossing of the Rockies—in a just-a-little-too-narrow room. Flexible aisleways and a tight...


David White's CMStP&P
Attics with sloping walls always present a challenge, because not only does the room get narrower as it reaches good operating height but...






















