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Category Archives: Achievable Layouts

The car barn in eight pages

The NS&T hits the April, 2023 RMC

Posted byTrevorMarch 15, 2023March 27, 2025Posted inAchievable Layouts, Layout Design, Layouts I have designed or built, Niagara St Catharines & Toronto Railway in 1:64, NS&T Car Barn, Philosophy, Publications, Railroad Model Craftsman, Structures

“Layout” space – or “layouts” space?

Why not scratch multiple itches?

Posted byTrevorJanuary 24, 2023July 11, 2023Posted inAchievable Layouts, California Dreaming in Proto:48, Great Western Railway in 7mm scale, Layout Design, Layouts I have designed or built, Niagara St Catharines & Toronto Railway in 1:64, Philosophy

PFE in P:48

Big Cold Cars

Posted byTrevorJanuary 21, 2023July 11, 2023Posted inAchievable Layouts, California Dreaming in Proto:48, Proto:48 equipment, Shout Out

SP 1767

A small steam locomotive that’s perfect for an achievable layout in the King of Scales

Posted byTrevorJanuary 20, 2023July 11, 2023Posted inAchievable Layouts, California Dreaming in Proto:48, Proto:48 equipment

A car barn in 2×8

Designing my first step towards a traction layout.

Posted byTrevorJuly 14, 2022July 11, 2023Posted inAchievable Layouts, Layout Design, Layouts I have designed or built, Niagara St Catharines & Toronto Railway in 1:64

Lumber baron

Price be damned: I bought wood.

Posted byTrevorJuly 12, 2022July 11, 2023Posted inAchievable Layouts, Layout Design, Layouts I have designed or built, Niagara St Catharines & Toronto Railway in 1:64

Achievable layout: the NS&T car barns

A good start on a more extensive model railway under wire?

Posted byTrevorMay 24, 2022July 11, 2023Posted inAchievable Layouts, Layouts I have designed or built, Niagara St Catharines & Toronto Railway in 1:64

Edwardian Interlude Redux

A return engagement with the GWR in 7mm. The fleet has grown…

Posted byTrevorDecember 4, 2021July 11, 2023Posted inAchievable Layouts, Great Western Railway in 7mm scale, Layouts I have designed or built

Pinsly Railroad Company

A new book that might just inspire your next Achievable Layout.

Posted byTrevorNovember 5, 2021July 11, 2023Posted inAchievable Layouts, Influences, Publications, Railroad Model Craftsman

MET(RR) some old friends

Photographing the same locomotives in California and Saskatchewan.

Posted byTrevorOctober 11, 2021July 11, 2023Posted inAchievable Layouts, HO Scale Equipment, Influences, Locomotives, Publications, Railroad Model Craftsman

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