SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2025: Charlie Getz presents a way of building a layout in dioramas so as not to be burdened down by any one aspect of the hobby. Rob Bell has the second of his new column Dead Horse Tales where he shows you how to improve an HOn3 MTL flatcar. Gregg Condon, MMR, shows how to ballast your track just like the Rio Grande Southern once did. And Craig Symington, MMR, leads you step by step through making scale Piñion Pines. Boerries Burkhardt shows you a prototype White Pass railcar and Al Sohl, MMR, describes his On30 model of the Silverton Northern’s Casey Jones railbus. All this and more in the September/October issue of Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette!

Current Issue

September/October 2025

Volume 51, No. 4


Special Feature

My Sn3 Denver & Rio Grande Narrow Gauge 3rd Division
Marshall Pass And Sargent — by Art Lorenz

Features

ELLA, A Large Scale 0-4-2 From A 2-4-2 And A Boxcar 
An Exercise In Compromise — by Greg Wright, MMR

Rubber Tires On Narrow Gauge
The Story Of A Unique Railcar Conversion — by Boerries Burkhardt

My On30 Silverton Northern Casey Jones
A Short Description — by Al Sohl, MMR 

Dead Horse Tales, An HOn3 Adventure
Part 2: Beefing Up The MTL Flatcar — by Rob Bell

My On30 Northeast Logging Train
Best In Show — by Steve Hill

Yosemite Valley Railroad Observation Car 330
My O Scale Model — by Jack Burgess, MMR 

Dirt Ballast On The RGS
Revampment — by Dr. Gregg Condon, MMR 

Piñon Pines
Step By Step — by Craig Symington, MMR

The Narrow Gauge Scene 
Making A Scene — by Charlie Getz

Plans

WP&YR Motor Car No. 1
 by Boerries Burkhardt 

Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge
Stock Car — by Herman Darr

Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge
Wheel & Truck Car 1a — by Herman Darr

Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge
Crew Car 1D — by Herman Darr 

Millwood Coal & Coke Co. No. 1
by David Fletcher

Russian River Bridge, North Pacific Coast Railroad 
by Gary Caviglia

Departments

Robert’s Ramblings by Bob Brown, Editor

Pigeon Hole — Letters to the editor

In Brief — Small announcements, new items, and corrections

New in Review Model reviews

Book Reviews


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