Model railroad author Robert Pethoud wrote “How to operate a small switching layout” in the March 2016 issue of Model Railroader magazine. In that article Robert shows how to use three 15″ x 48″ ...

The layout’s business district is Walthers’ Merchant’s Row I. Photographed outdoors, it’s hard to believe this eye-level photo was shot on a 2 x 6-foot HO switching module. Its compact size allowed ...

I found a few ideas for 4 x 8 track plans in Starter Track Plans for Model Railroaders (Kalmbach Books, out of print). In George Sebastian-Coleman's HO scale $500 layout, also featured in the ...