Greater St Louis and Southern Illinois Area
Layouts
The St. Louis and Southern Illinois Area is home to many fine model railroad layouts. Many are narrow gauge. Several have been published in model railroad magazines.
Modutrak N Scale Layout
2025 NMRA National Convention
Scale:
Era / Locale:
Size:
Percent Benchwork Complete: 100%
Percent Track Complete: 100%
Percent Scenery Complete: 100%
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Pets:
Scale: N
Percent Benchwork Complete: 100%
Percent Track Complete: 100%
Percent Scenery Complete: 100%
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Pets:
Scale: N
Percent Benchwork Complete: 100%
Percent Track Complete: 100%
Percent Scenery Complete: 100%
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Modutrak HO Scale Layout
2025 NMRA National Convention
Scale: HO
Percent Benchwork Complete: 100%
Percent Track Complete: 100%
Percent Scenery Complete: 100%
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Greater Saint Louis and Southern Illinois Area
Layouts
Greg Gramlich MMR
The Bear Creek model railroad is a prototypical train layout of the Cotton Belt and the Southern Pacific railroads from Texarkana, Arkansas to Pine Bluff, Arkansas set in the Fall of 1956. Both railroads are featured on the layout as the Southern Pacific acquired control of the Cotton Belt in 1932 and operated it as a subsidiary. The towns of Texarkana, Lewisville, McNeil, Stephens, Camden, Fordyce, Rison, South Pine Bluff, and Pine Bluff are some of the active towns for passenger and freight on the route. The route also had a lumber mill with logging, cotton and tobacco fields, an iron/steel plant, a huge quarry, a coal mine, and farms raising cows and pigs. The Bear Creek Model Railroad is a 30-foot by 30-foot double-deck layout with both freight and passenger operations. There is a large circus depicted on the layout and the layout has lighting for night-time operation.
Scale: HO
Era / Locale: Texarkana, AR to Pine Bluff, AR in Fall 1956
Size: 30 x 30
Percent Benchwork Complete: 100%
Percent Track Complete: 100%
Percent Scenery Complete: 100%
Brad Joseph
Union Pacific layout featuring Sherman Hill between Cheyenne and Laramie. Many prototypical structures and scenes also representing Wahsatch to Ogden, Utah. Lots of steam power and many passenger trains with accurate power and consist: City of Portland, City of Los Angeles, San Francisco Overland, City of Cheyenne, National Parks Special and the Utahn. Lots of railroad memorabilia on display including an Otto Mears Silver Pass and multiple SN3 locos and cars.
Scale: HO
Era / Locale: October 1954 in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah
Size: 360 square feet, double deck with 3 staging yards and a pennisula.
Percent Benchwork Complete: 100%
Percent Track Complete: 100%
Percent Scenery Complete: 100%, Bring your jacket....there is alot of snow!
Pets: Several small dogs.
Stairs: Yes
Parking Instructions: Park on either side of the street and come in through the front door.
Brian Post
This is a very intensive switching layout with a mainline and branch line. Trains are run using switch lists from JMRI and using phones as throttles (Digitrax throttles can be used). Four yards will handle switching by 6 axle diesels while 4 axle diesels handle switching to all of the industries.
Scale: HO
Era / Locale: June of 2000
Size: 40X25
Percent Benchwork Complete: 100%
Percent Track Complete: 100%
Percent Scenery Complete: 80%
Pets: Yes, one dog (Gordon). e likes his back scratched.
Parking Instructions: Park in the front. It's the only green house. Go to the side door, not the front. Do not ring the bell or knock. Just come in the side door and go downstairs.
Stairs: Yes
