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Blackmoor Miniatures is the personal site of Canadian artist Angela Imrie (known as SaxonAngel on CoolMiniOrNot), showcasing her finely painted fantasy and sci-fi miniatures from makers like Games Workshop, Reaper, and Hasslefree. The site features a miniature gallery, terrain gallery, painting tips and FAQ, work-in-progress projects, and a for-sale/commissions section.

The San Luis Obispo Model Railroad Association (SLO MRA) is a club dedicated to model railroading across San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, hosting public events like Model Rail Days at the historic Oceano Depot. Visitors can learn about the club's HO and N scale layouts, community outreach projects, and upcoming swap meets and festivals.

Donald Ray Burger profiles the Houston Area "G" Gaugers, a local club for large-scale model railroad enthusiasts in the Houston, Texas area. The page covers membership details, meeting schedules, dues, and the club's welcoming atmosphere for hobbyists running LGB, Aristocraft, and live steam equipment.

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.

The North Atlanta Rail Barons is a club of over twenty model railroaders based in the Northwest Atlanta suburbs, organized in 2005 to help members build and operate model railroad layouts in each other's homes. As one of only two 100% NMRA Member Operating Groups in Georgia, the group meets weekly and covers topics like HO-scale layout construction, prototype railroad operations, and regional train shows.

The Middle Georgia Model Railroad Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving railroad hobbyists in the Warner Robins, Georgia area, operating multi-scale layouts in G, O, HO, N, and Z scales. The club hosts public exhibits at major regional venues including the Museum of Aviation's annual Planes and Trains event, participates in Boy Scout merit badge programs, and welcomes new members across all experience levels.

The Piedmont and Western Railroad Club, based in Valdese, North Carolina, maintains both an active model railroad layout and the Old Rock School Railway Museum, offering a rich blend of hobbyist and historical railroad content. Visitors can explore prototype images of North Carolina railroads, steam locomotive carvings, narrow gauge car restorations, and resources like railroad station directories covering hundreds of cities and towns.

The Tidewater Southern Model Railroad Club is a club based in the Tidewater region that models the early railroads of California's Central Valley using HO and N gauge layouts powered by Digital Command Control. Members run their own locomotives and rolling stock spanning the 1950s through modern era, with both steam and diesel appearing at meets on layouts that have been evolving for over 30 years.

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.

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.