What a person gets out of the hobby is as varied as the number of people participating. For some, it’s casual recreation. Others enjoy...

In most cases, layout design decisions are neither inherently good or bad…… as long as the layout owner is crystal clear as to the pros...

Seldom does somebody wake up one day and say they plan to have a significantly sized model railroad housed in their basement six months...

We typically associate the size of a model railroad with its complexity, ease of construction, operational interest, and viability for...

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Of more importance, from a railroad’s point of view, it’s generally the...

When it comes time to actually build their layouts, one of the most frequent questions I get from my clients is, how do I create curved...

Selecting the appropriate bench work footprint for your model railroad design is one of the most important design decisions you’ll ever...

One of the most common questions I get from clients is a request for tips on the best way to prepare a room for a future layout. Lighting...

When starting a design for a customer, it’s fairly common to hear something along the lines of, “Oh, by the way, over the years I’ve been...

As we take a design from the conceptual to detail stage, foremost in our mind should be the realization that what we draw WE must build. ...

Here are three common construction mistakes that will bite you in the rear if you aren’t careful. I’ve made all of them. Most of the...

In the past several years I’ve noticed a trend in the scale my customers select for their layouts. N scale now accounts for almost half...

When the term “layout planning” is thrown out, the image that pops into most people’s mind is a track plan with a sidebar that delineates...

When you look at a developing model railroad design it should be from the perspective of having the blinders off and being crystal clear...

The customers I see in my business often have a common history leading up to the time they contact me. Due to time and/or space...