Members Layouts

Member Layouts, Models and Other Activities

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Steve's German HO Chevy Vehicles and the HO Smith Creek Depot.

Steve's German HO Chevy Vehicles and the HO Smith Creek Depot. The HO trucks were made by Wiking, a German company, as a promotional set of 3 1955 Chevrolet trucks. Steve added lights, license plates, mirrors, and weathering wood by diluted acrylic paints. On flat bed with Corvette, he added wood runners for car to rest on and tie down straps with thin black vinyl tape. Steve substituted a Classic Metal Works trailer for with semi and added oil company decals "Dixie". The HO train depot model was part of a Greenfield Village historical set. Depot was the Smiths Creek depot that was moved to be part of Henry Ford's Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI. It was at this station that a teenage Thomas Edison was thrown off a train for starting a fire in the baggage car where he worked as a newsboy there. Steve detailed the station in appropriate colors, added details, partitioned off inside as depot was half used for living quarters for RR personal. The skeleton, bench and suitcase with handle ("IS AMTRAK ON TIME?") are from Miniprints and hand painted as well as other figures and details.

Jimmy Making New LocoNet Cable Connectors

Logan's Ghost Train

Recently, I added lights to 4 of my N Scale homes and a church. One of the N Scale homes with a fence came from Timonium Train show earlier this year.
All the lights were bought from Toy Trains & Collectibles (TTC) store in August before they closed. Lights supported by 3 legs with spare bulbs made from Stevens International.
The intensity is just right not too dim or bright using DC transformer accessories. All lights connected in parallel from a switch on my 4x8 layout to a terminal block underneath held by Velcro strip.
Note the church has a lighted cross in door. It's a work in progress making the N scale section more interesting.

Steve's Monument to

George Sellios of Fine Scale Minatures

Steve's South of the Border Cafe

Steve showed his beautifully detailed HO model of a Sombrero restaurant. He started with a Bachmann model of the actual 1950s restaurant in Southern California. Since Steve is from Minnesota, he customized it as south of the Canadian Border. For his 1950s model, he used authentic flags of 48-star USA flag and Canadian flag before 1960 with maple leaf. Steve added window signs of "Canadian Walleye" and "Minnesota Food on a Stick." Also, he added 2 Royal Canadian Mounties from Miniprint, lumberjacks/miners in red/black plaid from Preiser, and Blue Ox for Minnesota Paul Bunyan fame. The clutter at the rear door represents normal restaurant supplies. The roof treated with black paint mixed with Mod Podge, then sprinkle on the sand. Debris are odds and ends kids would throw up on roof. The soccer ball and traditional beach ball were handprints on plastic head of a sewing pin. The fire hydrant is red with green cap to indicate 1000 to 1500 gpm of water flow. Steve painted all figures and weathered all objects. (Note: above 1500 hydrant cap is blue, 500-1000 is orange, or red for less than 500 gpm.) This SOUTH OF THE BORDER CAFE goes in his historical Route 66 Bluefield Village.

Todd and Bud Visit the
Great Scale Model Train and Railroad Collectors Show
Timonium, MD April 27-28, 2024

Members Field Trip to the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, March 29, 2024
Pictures by Todd Smith

Tom Roehr's O-Scale Layout

Steve's Latest Custom Building Projects
Bridge, Speeder and Crane

Bud's Updated Layout

Todd's O-Scale and N-Scale 4'x8' Layouts

January 1, 2024
New Year's Day at the
Walkersville Southern Railroad
Piedmont Railroaders and Rappahannock Railroad Museum Members

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A Message from Vice President Doug Boomer

Bill Dunn's Layout in Culpeper
Recently some PRR members visited the layout of Bill Dunn, a member of the Potomac Module Crew
at his home in Culpeper. Bill's 22'x56' layout has been in development for 19 years.
Go to the section at the bottom of this page or click the link above for a video of Bill's layout.
Thanks Bill for allowing PRR to visit your beautiful work of art.

Todd, Bud, Dallas and Carol's Visit to the O. Winston Link Museum
in Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2023

O. Winston Link was a famous photographer of steam trains in southern Virginia.
Many of his pictures of the Norfolk & Western and Virginian Railway were
taken in mountain locations at night using experimental lighting for the period.
Below are a few of Link's most famous photographs (Credit O. Winston Link)

Steve's Shell Gas Station

Ken's Susquehanna 142
(Would Have Looked Better if it was Not Derailed)

Logan "Dancin the Gandy" at the Warrenton Caboose

Tracks and Yaks
Rail Bikes
Frostburg to Woodcock Hollow
May 27, 2023
Todd and Dawn Smith

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Steve Seidler's magnificent model of the Larson Boat Works.
Lasron Boats was the manufacturer of Larson and Crestliner boats.
This model is typical of waterside marinas found in Wisconsin and
Northern Minnesota. Steve is working on a model of the actual Larson
factory.

From a recent trip to the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke

Shireville Fabrication Industry
This highly-detailed model was built by Bill Sobotka for his home railroad based on the fictitious town of Shiresville.
It has been installed on the portable module originally built by Bill Abel.

Steve Seidler's Kalmbach Publishing Company.
A. C. Kalmbach has been publishing Model Railroader magazine
in Milwaukee since 1934. This model represents Kalmbach's first
facility.

Jimmy, David, Larry and Sharon work on getting the late Jom Wood's
garden railroad layout into operating condition as an honor and remembrance
of Jim who with Sharon started this layout.