RMC Extra Board
Welcome to Craftsman Extra Board! This section is updated periodically with short features contributed by our readers, as well as some recent favorites straight from the pages of Railroad Model Craftsman. Check back as we continue to add new articles!
March 15, 2025
Pete Hall’s Southern Pacific Coast Line in HO Scale
Modeling 1950s California Coast Division operations between San Francisco and San Luis Obispo on a large HO layout.
March 15, 2025
Install an Animated Grade Crossing
Follow these simple steps to add a realistic animated grade crossing to the HO scale Conrail Onondaga Cutoff.
February 15, 2025
Design, Print, and Build a New York Central Tower
Using updated 3D-printing techniques to model a New York Central interlocking tower in HO scale.
February 15, 2025
Allagash Railway, Part 2: Oxford County Short Line
The HO scale proto-freelanced Oxford County Railroad is modeled after New England short lines of the 1980s, and connects with the Allagash Railway.
January 20, 2025
Gateway to the Yukon: The White Pass & Yukon Route in HOn3
Modeling an alternate history where the venerable narrow gauge railway is still going strong in 1983.
January 20, 2025
Car Routing for Smaller Layouts
Brooks Stover has employed a system of car routing for short trains on a small railroad, just like the prototype Buffalo Creek & Gauley.
December 15, 2024
Mike Confalone’s Allagash Railway: Part 1
It’s 1982 in Western Maine on Mike Confalone’s proto-freelanced HO layout that captures scenes of northern New England in early spring.
December 15, 2024
Realistic Kansas Street Running
How to model asphalt streets so textured you can almost smell them on a hot day.
November 14, 2024
Make Detailed Cypress Tree Stumps
An easily adaptable technique to create massive cypress stumps for swampy scenes in O scale (or any scale you wish).
November 13, 2024
Return to the Barchester Branch
A proto-freelanced approach to a rural Pennsylvania branch line terminal in HO scale, based on a track plan by Robert Chant.
