Rail Scenics

What model railroader hasn't dreamed of having his or her layout featured on a calendar, in an article, on a magazine cover, in a coffee table book, or brought to life on a video or DVD? Obviously, the first leg of that journey toward immortalizing your layout starts with you. You've easily invested years, if not decades of time, sweat, craftsmanship, and of course, money in your dream layout. In your opinion, and in the opinion of your family, friends, and fellow modelers, you've created a masterpiece. Even if yours is not the best model railroad the world has ever seen, your layout and your trains have played an important role in your life. To a degree, your layout is a part of your legacy.

The crew here at Railscenics can produce a photographic portfolio or film of your layout that will truly commemorate your achievement. We bring more than 30 years of professional, award-winning editorial and commercial photography experience into your basement, attic, hobby room, or garage. We'll collaborate with you to provide you with a product that will be a lasting tribute to your passion as a model railroader and that will ultimately become part of your family's heritage.

Beyond merely photographing or filming your layout, we can produce a coffee table book or DVD with music and sound that would include a narrative, by you, about your railroad. As avid model railroaders ourselves, we bring an understanding of model railroading to our photo sessions and an eye for detail that no other commercial photographers can offer.

Please visit our gallery of layouts and judge for yourself. Then email or call us and go ahead and daydream about paging through a real book of full-color, glossy photos of your layout that look like they were taken trackside on the prototype. The crew here at Railscenics can make those dreams come true.

Terms & Conditions

Photo sessions are $600.00 / day or $75.00 / hr. anywhere in New England or within a day’s drive of Newport, Vermont. This includes travel time, expenses (lodging), and meals. It takes about a day (10 hrs.) to thoroughly photograph a fully detailed 8’ x 10’ HO layout. Contact us and give us a description of your layout (size, extent of detailing, number of rolling stock, scale, etc.) and we can easily provide you with a free estimate.

Modelers are provided with high-resolution, reproduction quality TIFF files (unsharpened) and low-resolution jpgs (sharpened). Copyright to all photographs and video are shared between the modeler and Railscenics but are negotiable.

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