Welcome to the NASG Web Site (2025)

Welcome to the National Association of S Gaugers' web site! The NASG is a non-profit organization that supports all 1:64, or S-scale, modelers, manufacturers, and vendors. We have a ton of content, so take your time exploring this web site.

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This is The S-scale Web Site

There are over 70,000 pages of content on this site!
We have over 16,000 products documented, many with photographs.
There is a listing of more than 570 "S" layouts.
There are over 600 manufacturers and retailers listed that carry S-scale products, today!
There are over 40 events coming up in the near future where you can see S in person.
We average over 450 news announcements per year.
This web site is updated nearly every single day! Yes, S is alive and thriving! Join us!

About the Home Page Photos

Below is a bit more detailed information about the photos shown in our home page's rotation. Click the photo to see the larger version used on the home page. To help keep this listing fresh, please consider sending the webmaster a photo of your layout, diorama, module, model, or an S-scale event.

Photo #1

The Special S-scale Issue!
The November 2024 issue of Model Railroader magazine is out now. Several NASG members got together and reached out to Model Railroader magazine and proposed a special issue focused on S. Their editors liked the idea. Roger Nulton prepared a feature article on his Monon layout, a photo of which wound up being used as this month's cover. Paul Washburn wrote a terrific article on how he scratchbuilt three ATSF wooden reefers. Brooks Stover wrote an overview of modeling in S-scale today. We encourage you to get a copy of this historic issue and share it. Copies can be found at your local book store or newstand, as well as be ordered online.

Order online: Model Railroader
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Roger Nulton's layout (more photos)
Paul Washburn's layout

Photo #2

Frank Titman built two of these Central Railroad of New Jersey 4-6-2 Pacific locomotives. Bill Lane had one of them. At the 2024 NASG Convention, a handful of modelers showcased models they owned that were scratch-built by Frank. The other CNJ Pacific also made an appearance, and Bill was able to negotiate a price with the owner to finally own both of these models. The consist is shown running on Bill's home layout. The train the engines are pulling consists of Trainstuff passenger car kits, also built by Frank.

Bill's web page about these engines (more photos)

Photo #3

A while back Tom Roell shared some photos of his professionally-built model railroad. In among the photos he sent was this one. Tom bought the Pittsburgh Railways trolley from Pennsylvania Heritage Models sometime in around the year 2000. These are 1:50 scale Corgi models for which PA Heritage created a custom chassis that had S-scale trucks, used a can motor, and was built for AC power. The Corgi car was part #US55018. Corgi was a British company and this model was released in 1997.

More photos of Tom's layout

Photo #4

Southern Pacific P10 #2490 heads an extra section of the Sacramento Daylight on the Sierra Northern Railroad. The photo was taken by Bob Hogan on his 19' x 21' layout. The 4-6-2 #2490 began as a stock American Models Pacific but Bob replaced the domes, pilot, cab, and added brass details by River Raisin Models to craft a Southern Pacific P-10 class Pacific. The combine behind the locomotive is a modified American Models 73' coach. Bob added baggage doors and a Pre-Size Model Specialties resin arch roof to create a Southern Pacific's arch roof combine as used on the Sacramento Daylight which is why it is painted in Daylight colors. The lumber mill complex in the background was built from B.T.S. kits. This photo appears on the inside cover of the October 2024 issue of the Railroad Model Craftsman magazine in the NASG promotional ad campaign.

More information about Bob's layout
B.T.S. saw mill complex
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Photo #5

Ron Kemp sent in a few photos of the progress he has been making on his Buffalo New York Central Belt Line layout.

More information about Ron's layout

Photo #6

Number 2914 drifts past Copeland Feed and the two-headed oak tree on the hill, with a manifest of empties heading for the barn. The locomotive is a Southern Pacific TW-8 class twelve-wheeler (a 4-8-0) that was scratch-built by Paul. The prototype still exist at Pioneer Village at the Kern County Museum in Bakersfield, California. The stock car is a East West Rail Service SP S-40-2 kit that Paul built. The switch stand is a product by Rio Grande Models (part #3356).

More information about Paul's layout
SP stock car kit
Prototype photos of SP #2914
Brief video clip of SP #2914 at the museum

Photo #7

A Canadian National 2-6-0 passes through some wonderfully detailed scenery on Jim Martin's home layout.

More information about Jim's layout

Photo #8

The Rio Grande Southern "Work Goose" #6 idles next to the San Miguel river while the crew has gone for beans at Placerville, Colorado. It is a beautiful fall day in 1950 as abandonment looms for the Rio Grande Southern. Craig Wright captured the scene on his 18' x 30' Sn3 layout representing the D&RGW and RGS railroads in New Mexico and Colorado set in the fall of 1950. The Rio Grande Southern was a 3-foot narrow-gauge railroad that converted a total of seven Pierce-Arrow cars into 3-foot narrow-gauge vehicles to cut down on the expense of operating a steam train. Goose #6 was used by the maintenance-of-way department and is basically a pickup truck. Other RGS Geese hauled the mail, LCL freight, and passengers in southwest Colorado. RGS Goose #6 is a P-B-L foreground model that comes from P-B-L painted and weathered with lights and sound installed. The D&RGW 5500 series narrow-gauge stock car was built from a P-B-L kit. Notice the "bullboard" across the open door of the stock car and the bale of hay. P-B-L makes some of the finest brass models and kits available in any scale. Their specialty is Sn3 but they carry numerous other S scale items. Craig uses code 70 and code 55 rail. Layout grades are as steep as 4%. Dramatic scenery extends well below track level and photo-realistic backdrops capture the vastness of the mountainous terrain and create breath-taking scenes. The layout features hundreds of trees in autumn colors. This photo appears on the inside cover of the September 2024 issue of the Railroad Model Craftsman magazine in the NASG promotional ad campaign.

More information about Craig's layout
Details about the P-B-L Goose #6
Complete listing of P-B-L's Sn3 stock cars
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Photo #9

Alan Balma joined the Ford's Colony Model Railroad Club a few years after he retired. The first weekend in December, as part of major festivities in the Williamsburg, Virginia area, the club sets up modular display layouts of most scales at the local library. They have a Lionel layout where the children could press the buttons of the accessories with as much enthusiasm as they wanted. Alan was such a Lionel kid when he was young. Unfortunately, his family did not have an American Flyer layout. He thought it would be fun and so he built an AF layout for the club. The layout has four modules with two loops of track and sets up to be 7' by 13'. The club has a log loader and car that unloads logs, an operating water tank, and a barrel loader on one loop. The other loop has the mail car (most popular) and milk car. Each have buttons to push for the children. (Also, grandmothers whose brothers would not let them have the fun when they were young!) Over the past 9 years, the club have had 3,000 to 4,000 visitors each year. As a result, they have worn out multiple accessories! Al Keil (right, back) and Alan are both NASG members and they co-chair the set-up and operation of the S layout.

Ford's Colony Model Railroad Club

Featured Video

We want to reward you for scrolling all the way down to the bottom of this page by offering a featured video. This video will be replaced from time to time as S-scale modelers make new ones available, so scroll down here every so often! Contact the webmaster if you would like to nominate a video.

June 16, 2024: Terry O'Kelly produced a fantastic video detailing the history of EMD. He uses a mix of prototype and S-scale models to narrate the story.