I was able to do more work on my HO scale train table layout mountain and scenery. As this was the first time I’ve done scenery I was a little apprehensive, but I decided to just dive in. I taped up the rock castings and sprinkled grasses all over the mountain. The lid on the […]

It’s been a long time since I had an update on my HO scale train table layout, and that is mostly due to the fact that I haven’t actually done anything on it. Over the last several months I tried setting aside some time to work on it, mostly creating the mountain and tunnels on […]

This is the third year that I’ve gone to the Fullerton Railroad Days event, and this year there was something special – a 4-8-4 Baldwin Locomotive Works steam locomotive. Santa Fe #3751 arrived Thursday night (4/30) at the Fullerton Station, being led by a BNSF locomotive. This wasn’t the first time the engine has showed […]

Apparently the city of Fullerton does the Fullerton Railroad Days most years, and I wanted to check it out (especially since it’s only a few miles away). There were several different layouts in different scales, but the one I liked the most was a modular HO layout as you first walk into the area which […]

I already knew I was going to have a mountain and a small town on my layout, and I wanted to have some of the track elevated so everything wasn’t just sitting on the same level ground. But I had to figure out what track would be elevated and how I would do it. The […]

As soon as the table was upright and in position, I immediately set up the track on it. It was just a simple loop that took up the whole table. I was content for a few days just running the train around, but I soon wanted more. So I sat down and used AnyRail to […]