Mark's Model Railroads

Welcome to Mark's Model Railroads page. This site will evolve, as I build my model railroad and learn more about this kind of modeling. Right now, it is just a starting point with a page on how I built my first model attempt - just a diorama of a simple scene (photo below) built from a couple of kits.

• The "Holiday Village" links in the bar above show photos and videos of a side project, our holiday train layouts.
• The "Real Trains" links in the bar above show photos and videos of train sightings we've seen around Colorado, including the famous Union Pacific (UP) "Big Boy" restored steam locomotive, and UP legacy trains.
• Springtime in the Rockies - Individual photos of the finished simple "Rockies Diorama" used as an experimental platform for testing techniques. For a slide show from this page, click on "More options" (three vertical dots in the upper right) then click the "Slideshow" item.
• The Making of Springtime in the Rockies - How I went about building the diorama, step-by-step.
• Springtime Scenery Diorama Article - An expanded, downloadable & printable .PDF document showing construction techniques.