2025 On30 Annual

What a time to be a modeler, especially in On30! We’ve added even more value to the On30 Annual, delivering amazing models, layouts, and building projects in O scale for 2025. Now in its 20th year of providing modeling fun and accessible narrow gauge for everyone, the On30 Annual is your definitive guide to O scale narrow gauge modeling. Here’s what you’ll find inside…

A Look Back… and A Look Ahead

by Chris Lane

Upgrading Bachmann Porters

Weathering Techniques for Your Steel Hoppers • by Walter Reid

Wandering Spruce Railroad

A Compact Railroad with Big Appeal: by Sean Williams & Kevin Spady

Steam Dummy

Brights Ideas for Building a Dummy • by Allen K. Littlefield

Confessions of a Rivet Counter

Recovery is Possible with My 12-Step Program • by Chris Bohn

Raúl’s Frijoles Boxcar

Melted Modeling for a Swayback Look • by Gary Beatty

Low Cost Rural Scenery

Stunning Results From Budget Materials • by Matt Woods

Get a Horse!

Modeling Commercial Vehicles from the Early Thirties • by George Riley

Shower Shack on the Mosquito Creek

How Loggers Clean Up Their Act • by Joseph Kreiss

A Freelanced Center Cab Switcher

Inspired by a Long-Forgotten Locomotive Model • by Pete Leach

The Practical & Achievable Railroad

Designing and Building a Short Line • by Stan Shields

Scratchbuilding a Drop-Bottom Coal Car

Ajax Trucks-Equipped and How to Build Them • by Sam Swanson

Frijoles Refritos de Raúl

Explosive Modeling • by Gary Beatty

Modeling Across Generations

Inspired by the Master • by Brian Clauto

A Handcar for the Wheeling and Finely

Building the Speed Demon • by Andrew Clauto

Modeling with Grout

Scenery for the Spring Creek • by Rick Bell

No Room For the Layout of Your Dreams?

Try a Mini Layout • by Larry Knapp

Scratchbuilding Rolling Stock

Thoughts on Rolling your Own Rolling Stock • by Bob Bennett

Building a Southwestern Adobe House

A Typical Adobe Abode • by Bob Staat

Chillin’ on the Mountain

Modifying a Bachmann Reefer into a Tiffany • by Steven Bechtold

Al Judy: A Legacy of Inspiration

Remembrances and Models • by Thomas P. Farrell, Jr.

Condiment Tanks

Pass the Ketchup • by Michael Tylick

Vance Junction

On the Rio Grande Southern in On30 • by Roy Kell

Lil Miss Molly

A Mail Rail Car • by Glen Gronevelt

Locomotive and Rolling Stock Roundup

Our 2025 Review • by George Riley