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The Bremerton Northern Model Railroad club (BNMR) is a Kitsap County, Washington group dedicated to model railroading, with HO and N Scale divisions operating layouts inside Silverdale's Kitsap Mall. Visitors are welcome during open house hours on Thursdays and Saturdays, and the club supports local food banks with 100% of donations collected on their first two open house days each month.

RR-Track is a Windows software product for designing model train layouts, offering fully graphical track planning tools with support for O, G, HO, N, S, and standard gauges. The software includes 3D terrain visualization, train simulation, and extensive accessory libraries, and after 32 years the company has announced it is closing sales at the end of 2025.

A dedicated hobbyist site showcasing the Badger Creek Lumber Company, an On30 and HO scale logging model railroad layout. The site features track plans and model photography capturing the charm of a miniature logging operation.

The Tri-County Model Railroad Club serves hobbyists across Kenosha, Racine, and Lake counties, offering a community hub for model railroad enthusiasts in the region. Hosted on TrainWeb.org, this club site features imagery of layouts and trains, connecting local members passionate about model railroading.

The North Texas Garden Railroad Club is a hobbyist club based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area uniting enthusiasts of garden railroading and scale model trains. The site showcases member layouts from across North Texas and Oklahoma, with photos from events like the Fall Plano Train Show and charity runs at Cook Children's Hospital.

The Miniatures Page is a long-running web magazine and community hub dedicated to miniature wargaming across all genres, from ancient historical battles to science fiction and fantasy. Founded by Bill Armintrout and active since 1994, it offers forums, hobby news, a marketplace, painting showcases, manufacturer directories, and rules references covering virtually every era and scale imaginable.

The Golden Gate Model Railroaders is a San Francisco-based club that operated a model railroad layout in the basement of the Randall Museum, with this archived site documenting the club's history, track plans, and automation projects. Maintained by member Raphaël, the site preserves news posts and photos from the club's active years before its dissolution, and redirects visitors to the successor Randall Museum Model Railroad.

Michael Campbell's long-running blog chronicles his passion for building narrow gauge model railway layouts in 009 and O14 scales, with multiple named layouts each documented in detail. Posts cover everything from track laying and weathering to exhibition reports and scratch-built structures, making it a rich resource for narrow gauge modelling enthusiasts.

Cailean Watts documents the construction of Ewhurst Green, a 4mm finescale OO gauge model railway inspired by a planned-but-never-built Surrey branch line on British Rail's Southern Region. The site is remarkably detailed, covering layout concept, station operations, passenger and freight traffic, headcodes, rolling stock, and period-accurate scenery across many illustrated sections.

Central Ohio NTrak (Contrak) is an N scale model railroad club based in Columbus, Ohio, open weekly for members and visitors interested in running or learning about N scale trains. The club operates both a large DCC layout and a modular T-Trak setup, participates in regional train shows, and hosts the annual Ohio N Scale Weekend event.