The Model Railroad Resource

02/05/2026

Working on the new issue of The O Scale Resource. Here is a sneak peek at our preliminary cover. Due out end of February.

01/20/2026

Here's a new video from All Nation Line. Worth checking out.

Cabin fever hitting hard this winter? A good O Scale Train Show is the perfect cure. Getting out, talking trains, swapping stories, and checking out layouts...

01/08/2026

Model Railroad Resource 3D Models is announcing an addition to our GRS Signal SA1 Kit. One of the issues has been the ladders that we never accounted for,leaving up to the modeler. We have just received our new etching for these.

These etching kits include a brass target, ladder, stand and support. Ladders can be cut to length based on the model you are building. Also a new base will be available for a signal with no reply box as per the GRS catalog.

Working on the instructions now and we'll have these for the March Meet.

12/30/2025

The January/February 2026 issue of The O Scale Resource is now ready to read. Over 112 pages in this issue of Scale O Information. As always, free and easy to read or download!
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Turn Back The Dial to 2003 and The Indy O Scale Show by Gary Stuebben
Making Crew Figures Using Free AI Tools by Santiago Pineda
Traction Action by Martin Brechbiel
Lighting Your Passenger Cars in a Prototypical Way! by Nick Bulgarino
Kit-bashing a Southern Pacific F-50 Flat Car By: Santiago Pineda
Off-Line Business is Good Business by George Paxon
Canadian Forest Product Converted Steam Locomotive to Internal Combustion (part 2) By William W. Davis
New Tracks 10-22-25 My Build
New Tracks 11-26-25 My Build
New Tracks Modeling
And so much more!!!

12/10/2025

The Elves are working overtime to get the latest issue of The O Scale Resource out on time. Here is a sneak peek at our preliminary cover. Due out after Christmas.

11/13/2025

From Rick Steele
LaBelle Woodworking Co.

RP

This is the status used next to your name by the Crew Management system on Union Pacifc when an employee is going to retire. It means “Retirement Pending”. Now it applies to me, again.

After having owned and operated LaBelle Woodworking since 2001, I have been in the model business longer than the original or subsequent owners, I have decided to call it a day. I will be closing the doors and turning out the lights on LaBelle after 25 years on June 1, 2026. I have posted this as a courtesy to you, my loyal and well received customers, so that there will be no future surprises.

If anyone is interested in getting into the Model Railroad business I am not adverse to selling LaBelle to someone who is interested in purchasing it. I will be entertaining serious offers for LaBelle and the all of the equipment used to make our kits. I would love to sell the business so that the names and products that we produce, such as LaBelle, Silver Streak, Mainline Models, Ye Olde Huff and Puff, OnTrack and Valley Car Shops don’t disappear from the modeling scene.

Please contact me at [email protected] for further information. If there is any further information about the future of LaBelle, I will keep you informed here on the website’s introductory page.

10/30/2025

The November/December 2025 issue of The O Scale Resource is now ready to read. Over 110 pages in this issue of Scale O Information. As always, free and easy to read or download!
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This issue is over 110 pages!

A Fleet for Operations 6: Steel, Tanks, and a Parting By Brian Scace

The Indianapolis O Scale Show By Dan Dawdy

The Strasburg O Scale Show By Dan Dawdy

The Story of Pitts Cut and Environs By George Paxon

Kit-bashing a Southern Pacific F-50 Flat Car By: Santiago Pineda

Passenger Car Building By David Schultz

Canadian Forest Product Converted Steam Locomotive to Internal Combustion (part 1) By William W. Davis

New Tracks and My Build

All this and more!

10/23/2025

We are finishing work on the next O Scale Resource Magazine due out near the end of October. It promises to be another great one!
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10/15/2025

Sad picture from our trip East, Belington, West Virginia

08/30/2025

The September/October 2025 issue of The O Scale Resource is now ready to read. Over 120 pages in this issue of Scale O Information. As always, free and easy to read or download!
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This issue is another big one, 137 pages! Starting with the beautiful modeling of Boyd Reyes. Next we check out the night scenes of a Quiet Night in Celestown July 1935.

Martin Brechbiel is back with a scratch build called Sethian’s and Sons.
Next is Building a Southern Railroad 36’ SU Boxcar (Part 3) by William W. Davis finishes out the build.

A Fleet for Operations 5: Lowering Some Transition Era Stuff by Brian Scace and finally some On30 narrow gauge action from William Longley-Cook and his Structures for the Cumbres and Cat Shed Railroad with bonus video. All this and more!

07/31/2025

Hey, we'll be this many years old next issue!!!

12 Years
144 Months
4,382 Days
105,189 Hours
6,311,424 Minutes
378,683,424 Seconds

We are beginning work on the next O Scale Resource Magazine due out near the end of August. It promises to be great one!
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