Model Railroad Checklists

I have compiled lists of things I think should be checked off when I am putting together various parts of my layout. While I do not include everything onthese lists, I have found them helpful when I want to make up different parts of my layout. I hope that they are helpful to you.

This is by no means an exhaustive list. It is meant only as a guide to help you out.

Checklist of Businesses to Model

Accountant
Antique Store
Appliance
Architect
Art Gallery
Art Studio
Attorney

Bakery
Bank
Bar
Barber
Beauty Shop
Bicycle shop
Blacksmith
Book Store
Bottled Gas
Bowling Alley
Brake Shop
Broker
Builders

Cafe
Candy Store
Car Wash
Carpet & Rug Store
Cat House
Chandler
Children's Clothing
Chiropractor
Cigar Store
Confectionery
Convenience Market
Cooper

Dairy
Decorator
Dentist
Department Store
Diner
Doctor
Donut Shop
Dressmaker
Drug Store
Dry Cleaners
Dry Goods Store

Electricians

Fast Food Shop
Five and Ten Cent Store
Floor Coverings
Flower Shop
Food Lockers
Fraternal Organizations
Fruit Stand
Furniture Store

Garage
Garden Supplies
Gas Station
Gift Store
Glass Shop
Goldsmith
Grocery Store
Gunsmith

Haberdashery

Hardware Store
Hobby Shop
Hotel

Ice Cream Store
Ice Rink
Inn

Jewelers

Kennel

Laundry
Livery Stable
Lumber Yard

Meat Market
Men's Clothing
Milliner
Mortuary
Motel
Movies
Music Store

Newspaper Office
Nursery

Offices

Optometrist

Pharmacy
Photographer
Plumber

Radio/TV Store
Real Estate Agency
Realtor
Restaurant
Roller Rink

Saddlery
Saloon
Savings & Loan
Self-Service Laundry
Service Station
Shoe Repair
Sports Shop
Stationers
Supermarket

Taxidermist
Telephone Office
Toy Store
Travel Agent

Undertakers
Used Furniture

Variety Store
Vegetable Stand
Veterinarian
Video Store

War Surplus Store
Wells Fargo
Western Union
Wheelwright
Women's Clothing

Parts of Businesses

Parts of a city

Countryside Natural Features

Animal bones
Animal droppings
Animal paths
Animal Tracks

Beaver dams
Brush piles
Burned trees

Dead trees

Erosion channels

Fallen branches
Fallen leaves/needles
Fallen trees

Ponds

Rock slides
Rocks

Stones
Streams
Stumps
Swamps/bogs

Talus
Thickets

Weeds
Wild animals

Industries to Model

 

Auto Wrecking

Boat Yard
Book Bindery
Brazing Shop
Brick Yard
Building Supplies

Cabinet Maker
Cannery
Chemical Plant
Cold Storage
Corrugated Metals
Cotton Gin
Creamery

Die Casting
Die Making
Distillery
Drilling Equipment
Dyers

Earth Moving Equipment
Electric Light & Power Company
Equipment Rental
Express Service

Farmer's Market
Feed Mill
Foundry
Furniture Mfg.

Gasoline Storage
Grain Elevator
Greenhouse
Grinding

Hatchery
Hauling

Ice House
Ice Mfg.

Kilns

Laboratories
Landscaping

Machine Shop
Meat Packing
Metal Fabrication
Metal Plating
Milling
Movers
Moving & Storage

Oil Storage
Ore Crushing

Paint Mfg.
Pipe Mfg.
Plastics Mfg.
Printers
Public Scales

Refinery
Rock Products
Roofer

Sawmill
Scrap Metal
Slaughter House
Stamping
Storage Yards

Warehouse
Welding Shop
Well Drilling
Wholesale Grocers
Wholesale Produce
Winery

Parts of Industries

Air-conditioning equipment

Block walls

Cabling
Chain-link fences
Conveyors
Cooling towers
Corrugated fences
Cranes
Cyclone separators

Distribution transformers
Dry spills
Dump
Dumpsters

Fire escapes
Fire extinguishers
Flagpoles

Gas cylinders
Guard dogs

Hoists

Junk piles

Lift trucks
Lights
Loading docks

Machinery

Oil stains

Pallets
Paths
Poles
Power lead-ins

Roof vents
Roof water tanks

Scrap metal/wood
Sheds
Skylights
Storage tanks

Tools

Trees

Weeds
Wire drums

Parts of a Mine



Cable drums
Conveyors

Dynamite shed

Hoist house

Junk

Machinery

Office
Ore bins

Retaining walls

Sluice

Tailings
Timbers
Tunnels

Parts of an Old Town

Board sidewalks
Buggies
False fronts
Hanging tree
Hitching posts
Horses
Wagons
Watering troughs

Railroad Passenger or Freight Depots Parts

Baggage carts
Baggage wagons
Benches
Boxes

Conductor
Crates

LCL freight
Luggage
Luggage Carts

Passengers
Porters

Scale
Signs
Station agent

Railroad Right-of-Way Parts

Abondoned track
Ash pits

Bumpers

Cattle guards
Crossing guard shack
Crossing signs/signals
Culverts

Derails

Fences
Fire barrels

Grade crossings
Guard rails

Junk

Mail hanger/catcher
Mile posts

Old removed rail/ties

Poles
Prefabricated switches

Rail racks
Retarders

Signals
Snow fence
Snow sheds
Switch machines
Switch stands

Telephone shack
Telltales
Train order stand

Warning signs
Water troughs
Water/oil columns
Wheel stops

Yard limit signs



Details to include on Freight or Maintenance-of-Way Cars

                            FREIGHT CARS

                                Underbody

Bolsters
Brake equipment

Center sill
Couplers

Draft gear

Trucks
Truss rods

                                 Loads

Boxes

Cinders
Coal
Containers

Debris/residue

Junk

Lading blocking
Logs (with chains)

Machinery

Ore

Piggyback trailers
Pipe
Pulpwood

Scrap
Stock

Wood chips

                                Exterior

Aging

Brake wheel

Door hardware
Doors

Grab irons

Hobos

Ice hatches

Ladders
Lettering
Logos

Number boards

Platforms

Roofing
Roof ribs
Roof walk

Stake pockets

Weathering


                              MAINTENANCE-OF-WAY CARS

Same as for Freight Cars, plus:

Cables
Chains

Drums

Gas cylinders

Rail

Snowplow
Spare trucks

Ties
Tool boxes
Tools