North American Model Websites

[MarshLane]

Chaps,

Can anyone direct me towards any websites or US forums that specialise in US railroad modelling. I have done a bit of a google search, but trying to work out what are the decent ones is less than easy!  My US limited interest is modern day based, but it would be nice to see what some people are doing, especially as several of the US guys go for bigger multi-level layouts!  I used to enjoy one layout by a chap whose name I cannot remember that was, I think, called the Siskyou Line? But that seems to have vanished.

 

Any links/pointers would be welcomed, if anyone has any favourites?

 

Rich

[brossard]

Not a forum, but a free online magazine which I think is superb:  https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/mrhpub.com/2019-10-oct/online/index.html

 

I must admit I haven't read it for a while despite having a subscription.  I'm more interested in British.

 

John

[davefromacrossthepond]

Rich

 

The person you are thinking of is, I believe, Joe Fugate.  His layout was the Siskyou (sp?) Line.  He founded (or was one of the founders) of the online magazine - Model Railroad Hobbyist.  Here's a link that while different than the one John posted is to the same online magazine.    

https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/

 

While I am not 100 percent sure, I believe there is a forum available.  

 

The publisher of Model Railroader also has a forum.  I believe registration is free, but I could be wrong.  Here's a link:

 

http://cs.trains.com/

 

Dave

[GP9u]

The MRH magazine's forum is here:

https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/recent-posts

 

Here are a few links that have some modern-era content in various scales:

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/?board=20.0

 

Scroll down this blog for links to several modern-era layouts:

http://westtorontojunction.blogspot.com/

 

https://groups.io/g/Proto-Layouts/topics

 

https://lancemindheim.com/model-railroads/

 

Pete

Edited November 17, 2019 by GP9u

[mdvle]

1 hour ago, MarshLane said:

Can anyone direct me towards any websites or US forums that specialise in US railroad modelling. I have done a bit of a google search, but trying to work out what are the decent ones is less than easy!  

 

I haven't looked for a while, but my observation is that there is no US equivalent to RMweb.  There are a number of sites, but none of them seem to be anywhere near as healthy in participation as RMweb.

 

You really need to look around, whether it be blogs, forums, YouTube, email groups (groups.io) or Facebook to find whatever meets your particular need (which is in a way unfortunate because it does make it more difficult)

 

1 hour ago, MarshLane said:

My US limited interest is modern day based, but it would be nice to see what some people are doing, especially as several of the US guys go for bigger multi-level layouts!  I used to enjoy one layout by a chap whose name I cannot remember that was, I think, called the Siskyou Line? But that seems to have vanished.

 

You are more correct than you thought - the Siskiyou Layout is no more having been demolished to make way for a new layout.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSoFN1nn1vI

 

If you go to the MRH website on the right side there are links to blogs and a forum they run.

https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/

 

 

[Gilbert]

Try this - especially if you like Craftsman kits

 

http://www.railroad-line.com/

[doctor quinn]

Big Blue Trains always offers a wide variety of content

 

https://bigbluetrains.com/index.php

 

Diesel Detailer, as you may expect focuses on loco modelling but not exclusively.

 

http://dieseldetailer.proboards.com/

 

Nick

 

 

[Andy Reichert]

Start with the NMRA.org website and the two major magazines, Model Railroader and Railroad Model Craftsman. I think the MR has an index DVD that lists all the layouts it reviewed over the years.

 

Andy

[MarshLane]

Thanks Andy,

I have had MR digitally through Zinio for a couple of years now, but have just dropped it as there's no way to access the video that I can find, where as there is with a paper subscription!  But I'll check out the NMRA sit.

 

Thanks to everyone for their help, @GP9u thanks for the email list option, which I have joined.  @mdvle Yup, that was the one one.  Shame its gone, but I'll have to go and see what he's doing for the new one!

 

Never know I may yet end up starting a layout thread on here - will have to come up with somewhere to run all these Atlas and Kato locos that I keep acquiring!

 

Rich