Project idea: micro model railroads

Posted By on August 10, 2010

Micro Layouts are small model railroads and are a sub-genre of model railroading that lends itself well to small bite-size projects. Small Layout Scrapbook has been around for many years and is a great source for these layouts.

They present great opportunities to make dramatic scenes. This is a small mining layout that can be found at the Small Layout Scrapbook called Draversaz built in 1:48 “O” scale and is only 24 x 18 inches in size.

Picture 005 One of our students, built this micro layout for his project a couple years ago. We ended up making it 11 x 41 inches in size and it is HO scale with a small trestle and a tunnel. More about this project can be found here.

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Dan is the Director of Studio Operations and co-founder of Autistry Studios which means that he's the guy who keeps everything working. Mechanical, Electrical, and Computational. In his spare time he teaches many "build stuff" workshops and if any time is left over after that he builds model trains or anything else he is momentarily interested in. Dan@Autistry.com http://www.facebook.com/daniel.swearingen http://www.polyweb.com/danno

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One Response to “Project idea: micro model railroads”

  1. J says:
    August 10, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    More pictures!

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