Blood Sweat & Tears Railroad

From time to time its fun to look over statistics and search online to see who’s visiting bstrailroad.com.  I was reminded that a few years ago an online magazine – Rochester Model Rails – featured a photograph of the BST on the cover of their May 2004 issue.  A quick search revealed that RMR is [...]

Minatur Wunderland, located in Hamburg Germany, is one of the worlds largest model railway installations.  With over 1,000 trains and 15,000 pieces of rolling stock, 150,000 trees, 150,000 figures, 5,000 cars, 30,000 feet of track, 5,000 houses and countless bridges, Minatur Wunderland is a visual feast for the most seasoned modeller.  With thematically based rooms, [...]

I happened upon this site a while ago and was immediately impressed with the modeling talents. In truth, Gribi’s narrow-gage efforts are likely some of the finest I’ve ever seen. With extensive galleries, and beautiful photography, Mr. Gribi takes super-detailing to a new level. Every item on each of his dioramas and [...]

I noticed that some of the Blood Sweat & Tears website traffic was originating from the TNMRC, so I decided to visit the site – and was pleased that I did!  The TNMRC offers an immense number of quality photos (smartly arranged in thematic galleries), and showcases some outstanding modeling efforts.  One of the unique [...]

The Bona Vista Railroad is the HO-scale masterpiece of Gerry Leone; Master Model Railroader #346. A prolific author (with a number of articles written for major model railroad publications) the BV website offers a fantastic overview of Gerry's past writings, while including a number of articles written for the site. Outstanding modeling combined [...]

The WPR was recently featured in the November 2006  issue of Model Railroader, and was awarded 3rd place in the Magazine’s Small Layout Contest.  The defining features of Bob Grech’s design are the outstanding level of detail and realism achieved in a relatively modest space while using already published track plan.  The track plan is [...]

The Utah Colorado Western features the outstanding modeling work of Lee Nicholas.  No stranger to reviews, The Utah Colorado Western has been featured in countless model railroad publications, including Model Railroader’s 2006 Great Model Railroads.  The UCW site features a great compliment of photos, as well as useful overviews on the layouts basic construction, lighting, [...]

The Australian Narrow Gage Web-Exhibition Gallery is an older site featuring over 30 outstanding layouts.  Ranging from small to midsize, each of the layouts are expertly detailed and well photographed making for an outstanding modeling resource.  Although the navigation is a little cumbersome, the information is arranged well, so visitors can browse through an extensive [...]

The micro-layout has become a modeling staple as it satisfies one’s need to create a model railroad, while paying heed to space and financial limitations. Sites such as carndt.com (the virtual micro layout repository) hold hundreds of inspirational designs for the would be mirco-modeler. Typically, micro-layouts are built around standard scales, especially narrow [...]

Finding international/European websites on model railroading can be somewhat difficult if you don’t know what to search for and you can’t understand what’s written.  Hence, it was quite by accident that I stumbled across Masinky 2003.  Twenty-five percent of the visitors to this site are from places other then North America, so I went hunting [...]