Layout Tours

THURSDAY OPEN HOUSES:

On the other side of Puget Sound, the Bremerton Northern Model Railroad club in Silverdale, Kitsap County has layouts in HO, N, American Flyer, and a small Lionel. It's in the Kitsap Mall and open Thursday and Saturday from 12-4

PSMRE - the Puget Sound Model Railroad Engineers have built a spectacular HO layout located in Tacoma's Washington State History Museum. Entry requires a museum ticket - $14 adult, $11 senior (60+) or active/retired military with ID - but it's worth it. The museum itself is terrific, and the railroad features dozens of scratchbuilt structures of downtown Tacoma prototypes, intricate models of Northern Pacific and Milwaukee Road bridges, outstanding mountain scenery including thousands of trees and logged-over hillsides, and a backdrop mural of Mount Rainier. OPEN: 10am-5pm (daily except Monday)

SATURDAY TOURS:

Lee Marsh's Great Northern has been featured recently on the cover of Model Railroader and their annual calendar. The layout represents GN’s Cascade mountain crossing in Washington State. Highlights include operating brass locomotives (steam, electric, and diesel), detailed rolling stock, and gorgeous scenery including custom representations of actual trees. OPEN: 4-8pm Saturday

The Morton Branch and Coal Creek Lumber Company is a narrow-gauge masterpiece by Russ Segner, with Heislers, Climaxes and Shays traveling through beautiful scenery and scratch built structures including a large sawmill. OPEN: 6-9pm Saturday

Brian Kaehler's Great Northern Wenatchee - Oroville line is a multi-deck layout under construction with most main-level trackage now operating. Both Russ and Brian are very convenient to the hotel. OPEN: 5-8pm Saturday

The multi-deck N-scale Montana Rail Link Columbia & Palouse Division of Todd Von Stup features 25 car trains climbing out of the Palouse and battling the Bitterroot Mountains to reach Missoula, MT. OPEN: 6-9pm Saturday

Burr Stewart's Burrlington Northern, a multi-deck HO version of the BN in the Seattle area from Tukwila north to Burlington and east to the Cascade Mountains town of Skykomish in 1973. OPEN: 5-9pm Saturday

The enormous N-scale Chicago, Milwaukee, and Puget Sound was the late Kirk Reddie's dream, now being carried forward by Don Miholovich. As featured in Mainline Modeler, Model Railroader, N Scale Enthusist, N Scale Railroading, and N-Scale Magazine, you'll find Milwaukee Road, Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Union Pacific trains among familiar Pacific Northwest scenes. OPEN: 5-9pm Saturday

Bill Sornsin's HO scale Great Northern Cascade Division, 1st Subdivision resides in a purpose-built 3,000 sf structure. Little scenery, but some scratchbuilt structures including King Street Station, and over 2,000 feet of track with trains running from Seattle to Gold Bar plus 3 large staging complexes. You'll also see creative construction solutions, unusual railroad artifacts, and a restroom built from prototype GN plans. OPEN: 6-9pm Saturday

Boeing Employees Model Railroad Club Seattle and North Cascades, Mountain Division. This HO-scale, 1200 sqft, double-decked layout follows a route from Seattle to Omak, WA in the 1950s. The mainline is about 7 scale miles long, plus a 1 mile branch, and the layout is nearly 100% sceniced. The club shares a building with the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive. OPEN: 5-9pm Saturday

SUNDAY TOURS:

Revised 2/25/2026