April 09, 2002

• New Layout:  PH&LF RailRoadnbsp;Association  by Lars-Erik Sodenkamp

April 05, 2002

• New Site:  The Ol' Hook&Eye  by Jerry Hartzler

April 01, 2002

• New Site:  LGB Modular layout  by Laurent Stalder

March 26, 2002

• New Site:  El Maquinista de Alboraya  by Amparo Ribes i Garcia

March 05, 2002

• New Site: CAW by Henry Kranz

March 02, 2002

• New Layout: CSX KINGSPORT SUBDIVISION by tony hubbard

February 23, 2002

• New Site: HOscale Trains 2002.com-Wisconsin Div of UPRR by Matt Millican

February 20, 2002

• New Layout: Michigan Central by DAVID REED

February 11, 2002

• New Site: ATSF Panoka District by Peter White

January 05, 2002

• New Site: Ontario Northland Railway in HO by walter McMillan

January 02, 2002

• New Site: Ferroequus Domain by Harvey Henkelman

November 17, 2001

• New Site: Krokodil Millennium by Lorenzo Rivara

November 1, 2001

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

October 1, 2001

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

September 23, 2001

• New Site: Boeing Employees Model Railroad Club by Bill Kajdzik

September 2, 2001

• New Site: Wiscasset,Trevino & Western by Andrew Hebron

September 1, 2001

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

August 1, 2001

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

July 23, 2001

• New Site: Harvey's LEGOR Train Creations by Harvey Henkelman

July 15, 2001

• New Layout: MUGGLERS DIVISION by Hans Ole Petersen

July 13, 2001

• New Software: Train Inventory and Operations by Scott Jay

July 1, 2001

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

June 11, 2001

• New Site: Luis's Model Railways page by Luis Lopes

June 8, 2001

• New Site: The Bona Vista Railroad by Gerry Leone

June 1, 2001

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

May 23, 2001

• New Site: The Pennsy Middle division in HO scale Jim Deignan

May 22, 2001

• New Layout: Kahnawake Pass Railroad MORICE Stephane

May 22, 2001

• New Site: Kahnawake Pass Railroad MORICE Stephane

May 11, 2001

• New Site: Christophe's Railway World Christophe Beuret

May 4, 2001

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

April 27, 2001

• New Layout: Chambrelien Christophe Beuret

April 20, 2001

• New Layout: Penn Western Roy Hoffman

April 4, 2001

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

March 15, 2001

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

February 1, 2001

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

January 24, 2001

• New Software: BAHN 3.70 by Jan Bochmann

January 1, 2001

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

December 28, 2000

• New Layout: Wiscasset, Trevino & Western by James Powell

December 15, 2000

• New Site: Railroad Builders by Scott Thompson

December 13, 2000

• New Layout: Bitter Creek by Paul Templar

December 11, 2000

• New Layout: Beaver & Timber Springs by Paul Templar

December 4, 2000

• New Layout: Badger Creek Lumber Company by Paul Templar

December 4, 2000

• New Layout: Summer Valley Railway by Scott Jay

December 1, 2000

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

November 14, 2000

• New Web Site: Half Nuts Model Railroaders by Scott Jay

November 1, 2000

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

November 1, 2000

• New Web Site: HM's model railroad by Huib Maaskant

October 28, 2000

• New Web Site: WILD WEST in Hessen by Kurt Ubl

October 28, 2000

• New Web Site: Paliz Bay Railway & Navigation Co. by Peter Borcherds

October 21, 2000

• New Web Site: Zumbro Valley & Western by Lynn Gobin

October 1, 2000

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

September 22, 2000

• New Web Site: Pacific RR Corporate Website by Dave Sawyer

September 03, 2000

• New Web Site: Desert Springs & Rattler Gap by Tiny Pearce

September 1, 2000

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

August 29, 2000

• New Web Site: Toy trains by Gilbert Olbregts

August 04, 2000

• New Web Site: Small Scale Logistics for Custom N-Scale Shays by Cliff Darrow

August 1, 2000

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

July 29, 2000

• New Web Site: Train Modeling Scratch Building by Oded A. Kain

July 1, 2000

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

June 27, 2000

• New Web Site: Bluestar Models by Michael Boyes

June 2, 2000

• New Web Site: Dave's Trains, Inc. by Dave Boehm

June 1, 2000

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

May 06, 2000

• New Software: Transfer Station by Shelly Jamison

May 4, 2000

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

April 24, 2000

• New Web Site: Model Railroad/Impala Page by Chris Dawalt

April 1, 2000

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

March 29, 2000

• New Web Site: The Railroad Paint Shop by Joshua Moldover

March 25, 2000

• New Web Site: Marc's diesel locomotives web page by Marc Schomburg

March 1, 2000

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

February 19, 2000

• New Web Site: Travis Home Page by Travis Congdon

February 11, 2000

• New Layout: The 30thies from Johann Sturm

February 07, 2000

• New Web Site: Internet Trains by Webmaster

February 1, 2000

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

January 13, 2000

• New Layout: Tie Rock Garden Railroad from Douglas Castille

January 10, 2000

• Updated Layout: Westport Terminal RR from Wolfgan Dudler

January 07, 2000

• New Layout: Ramapo Valley Railroad from Joseph Jordan

January 1, 2000

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

December 30, 1999

• New Web Site: Railroad Depot by Shane Lambert

December 22, 1999

• New Layout: M&RG from Ricky Glass

December 18, 1999

• New Layout came in: Union Pacific - Aurora Division from Daryl Kruse.
• Les Halmos withdrew his CB Rail layout.

December 15, 1999

• Don Crano requested removal of his Model Railroading With DCC site.

December 13, 1999

• New Web Site: Youngwood Historical And Railroad Museum by Youngwood Conductor

December 3, 1999

• New Web Site: Sean's Markly Trains by Sean Fanelli

December 3, 1999

• New Web Site: Valley Ntrak of Connecticut by John Wisinski

December 1, 1999

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

November 30, 1999

• New Web Site: Emmetts webpage by Emmett Lodge

November 20, 1999

• New Web Site: RailwayStation.com by Ron Paludan

November 8, 1999

• New Web Site: Maberly and Tayside by Robin Matthysen

November 1, 1999

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

All those who entered the Top Ten by the end of the month, get respective badges, that are displayed near the name of the item in the Collection and More Info sections.

October 1, 1999

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

All those who entered the Top Ten by the end of the month, get respective badges, that are displayed near the name of the item in the Collection and More Info sections.

September 19, 1999

• New Web site: Mepham Station by Andrew Mepham.

September 18, 1999

• New layout: Mepham Station by Andrew Mepham.

September 12, 1999

• New Web Site: Randy's Railroads by Randy Mower. It contains lots of railroad photos, made by the author.

• New Web site: Marklin locomotives by Henrik Lund. The author is planning to collect all Marklin locomotives on his site in time.

We are happy to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

Layout Section

1st	Kent Christopherson	Clear Creek & Idaho Springs Garden Railroad
2nd	Graham Morphett	The Coramba Creek Timber Company's Railway
3rd	Randy Mower	Greenbriar Cheat & Elk

 Site Section

1st	Don Crano	Model Railroading With DCC
2nd	Rich Beaver	Allegheny Northern Model Railroad club
3rd	Charles Wilber	Lionel Trains Horizontal Rules

 Software Section

1st	Hans Tanner	WinLok 2.1
2nd	Peter White	MiTrains Inventory System
3rd	Tom Levine	Train Dispatcher 2

All those who entered the Top Ten by the end of the month, get respective badges, that are displayed near the name of the item in the Collection and More Info sections. August 25, 1999

New Web site: RailServe was added to our site collection by Christopher Muller.

• New Web site: S-Trains S-Gauge/S-Scale by Paul Yorke.
• Oyvind Strom withdrew his site.

News Topics:
Winners of the month
Changes in the voting system.
 

Winners of the month.
As it's always done in the beginning of a new month, all results for July are cleared, and new results for August are displayed. However, all July information is taken into account in the table of the complete results of the year.
We are glad to congratulate our winners - best layouts, sites and software, that were chosen by our visitors. Here they are:

Layout Section 1st Kent Christopherson Clear Creek & Idaho Springs Garden Railroad 2nd Harold Riley Pat, Joi and Harold's sub-division 3rd Steven Kay Lackawanna Terminal Railway  Site Section 1st  Don Crano      Model Railroading With DCC 2nd  ˜yvind Strčm Hovedbanen 3rd  James Wells The Model Railroad Magic Website    Software Section 1st Hans Tanner WinLok 2.1  2nd Peter White MiTrains Inventory System 3rd  Hefner James Surviving World Steam Locomotives

All those who found themselves in the Top Ten by the end of the month, get respective badges, that are displayed near the name of the item in the Collection and More Info sections.

Unfortunaly, though a lot of new items were added to our collection, some of our members wished to be removed - mostly because they considered the scoring system unfair.  That's why we decided to modify the system.

Changes in the voting system.

After long discussions and letters from other railroaders we decided, that our voting system should be modified. The main reason is that initially the main criterion was the Resulting Ball. This system seemed to be most suitable and fair to us, as people could expess their good and bad opinions. So, the item that was considered the best - that is, had the highest resulting ball, won the contest. This system worked well all over the first month of our work.
However, this month the situation changed. Some unfair people started practicing the method of putting putting bad marks to people above them, in order to lower their resulting ball and get higher places.

That's why the changes were made. Since now the Resulting Ball no longer matters. All places are distributed according to the overall points, collected by items, and putting "one" no longer means that the site (software, layout) is bad. It just displays how much you liked it - "1" means "there's something interesting, but not much", and "5" means "extremely wonderful". That is, even when you put "one", you add to overall points and the item gets more points. The Average Ball column remains, but it no longer matters, and is used for informative purpose only.

If you don't like the item, just don't vote for it. Thus you won't add any points to its result.

The chief advantage of this system is that no one can spoil other's results any longer now. If you don't like an item - you just don't vote for it, but your voting can't do any harm to anyone.

We consider, that this way is the most fair. If you think otherwise, or have any comments or suggestions, feel free to state them in our Discussion section. 

July 30, 1999

• Bob Russell wished his layout to be removed from the collection.
• New web site: Lionel Trains Horizontal Rules by Charles Wilber.

• New web site: marklin-users.net by Juhan Palm.

• New web site: Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railways by Ravi Joshi. Large HO scale layout.

• New web site: TrainExpo.com by Garrett Snider. Boxcars, kits and other.

New web site: Hovedbanen by ˜yvind Strčm. Layout and useful tips on modelling lanscape.

• New web site: Robert's Home Page by Robert Powell.

Site overview on July, 14:
Layout collection contains 29 layouts.
Site collection contains 24 sites.
Software collection contains 7 software products.

Current contest leaders:

Layout section: Orange Belt Lines layout is currently leading.

Site section: Model Railroading with DCC shot ahead into first place again, followed closely by Allegheny Northern Model Railroad club.

Software section: WinLock 2.1 is currently at a safe distance from others.

July 13, 1999

• GC & CD Railway website was posted by Greg Attrill.

• The Model Railroad Magic Website by James Wells: magic, mysterious and very beautiful.

• John Whitby sent his Sustenbahn N-Scale layout.
• Frank Neubauer submitted his site: Frank's 0 Gauge Homepage.

• Gross Frankewitzer Eisenbahn O Gauge layout was submitted by  Frank Neubauer.

• Nice John's Swiss Railway Site was submitted by  John Whitby.
• One more layout arrived: MoPac West by Jerry Glow and Lee Freeman.

• A new N-scale Elizabeth & Austin Divisions of the PRR layout was submitted by Jim Cullen.

• Pennsylvania & Western RR web site was submitted by Bob B. The site describes an O-Gauge layout.
• One more garden railroad: The Coramba Creek Timber Company's Railway by Graham Morphett.

• Greenbriar Cheat & Elk layout was sent by Randy Mower.
• Princeton & Sedro Woolley arrived - an HO layout by Jack Pettee
• Kent Christopherson sent us a very beautiful : Clear Creek & Idaho Springs Garden Railroad layout.
• Les Halmos submitted CB Rail layout. An HO layout, designed in CadRail ver. 6.0
• Lex Parker submitted his Denver & Rio Grande Western layout. This is an On3 layout.
• A new web site was submitted by Richard Daniels:N&W Model Railroad Layout.

• Erie Lackawanna Railway - New York Division layout was submitted by Joseph Jordan.

July 3, 1999

• Hannibal,Black River & Wausau Railroad layout was submitted by Robert McCord.

July 2, 1999

• Sean Fanelli and his Sean Fanelli's MĪrklin Layout were added to our Layout collection.

July 1, 1999

Attention! A new month begins. All our winners are determined by the results of the voting during a month. That's why on July 1 all the results will be cleared and the race starts again. All winners of the month will get their respective awards and  badges. However, you can see the absolute results if you view the results for the whole year.
Futher information about the prizes will be published later. Check out this page!

Congratulations!
First month of our work has gone, and here we have our first winners!

 Layout Section

1st	George Smith	Willamette Junction Railroad
2nd	Frank LaPiana	Dunnfield Creek
3rd	Dmitry Yunchik	Mount River

 Site Section

1st	Don Crano	Model Railroading With DCC
2nd	George Smith	Willamette Junction RR.
3rd	Rich Beaver	Allegheny Northern Model Railroad club

 
 Software Section

1st	Hans Tanner	WinLok 2.1
2nd	Tom Levine	Train Dispatcher 2
3rd	Hefner James	Surviving World Steam Locomotives

Those, who resulted on the first place of our Top Ten lists by the end of June will get our prize!

Here they are:

George Smith for Number One Layout.
Don Crano for Number One Site.
Hans Tanner for Number One Software.
 

All information about the prizes and how to get them will be sent to our prize-winners via e-mail within the next few days.

All those who found themselves in the Top Ten by the end of the month, get respective badges, that are displayed near the name of the item in the Collection and More Info sections.

Here are the badges:

    Gold train for the 1st place
    Silver train for the 2nd place
    Bronze train for the 3rd place

    Top Ten Participant's badge (places 4th-10th)

The main news for today!
First month of our work has come to its end. During this time we had more than a thousand of visits, and more than thirty of our visitors became our members by submitting us their layouts, sites and software.

This results became possible due to all those, who helped us from the very opening, and supported us with their submissions and good words, making our site more and more interesting.

Great thanks also to all those people, who worked hard to make this site look the way it looks now!

• Both  ATSF Panoka District layout and MiTrains Inventory System software were submitted by Peter White.
• A new topic was added to our Discussion Board, named Techniques. It was created for those who want to exchange their experience in building model railroads, and for those who might have questions on the building technique. Feel free and leave your messages.

• A new layout was submitted by Bob Russell: Orange Belt Lines.

• Maberly and Tayside N-scale layout was submitted by Robin Matthysen.
• Robert Larsson sent his Roberts Model Railroad.  A very nice thing indeed!
• Very beautiful Niagara & Pearl Creek R.R. layout was submitted by Art Fahie.

• Harold Riley submitted his layout: Pat, Joi and Harold's sub-division.

• The text version of the site became available, providing faster loading.

June 21, 1999

• A nice site, containing Teton short lines layout was added to our Links page. Wayne Roderick is its author.

 

June 18, 1999

• Folkestone, Hythe and District Model Railway Club has joined us! It's members and their layout are waiting for you.
• Attention for all beginning model railroaders! A new place worth seeing - layouts, advice, photos. Don't pass by - here 'tis: All Gauge Page (Fun with Model Railroading)

June 17, 1999

• A new software was submitted: Railroad Management System by William Heffner

June 15, 1999

• What's New section appeared.
• Discussion section is opened on our site. You're welcome!
• A stunning Willamette Junction Railroad was submitted by George Smith! Click the preview to see it in all its beauty.

June 14, 1999

• All types of layouts are accepted! Though created in railroad modelling programs are recommended, you may also send us schemes made in other software, or just images of your paper drawings!
• A new site was submitted:Westford BR(W) by Terry Bowden
• A new software was submitted: WinLok 2.1 by Hans Tanner