Below are some photos, schematics, and mechanical art from past client projects. Click on anything to enlarge.

If you can imagine it... Our clients often have terrific imaginations! It kind of figures, a model railroader has to take fun seriously before ever imagining adding 'The Other Image'.

For us, the best part of being The RailRoadies is getting to work with some of the most talented, skilled and creative layouts, and people, in this Hobby!

We do the same things in scale that we did for the theme parks. We design (scratch build) the sound, and we engineer an audio system... moreover, we integrate the sound design with player features, and then we are part of the installation!

Integrating the soundtrack and the audio system is our specialty. We've learned how to simplify EVERYTHING through creative integration.

We're model railroaders too, we understand. We never forget it's your layout, and they are your decisions... it's our job to help you make them informed.

We routinely work with unusual projects, and in every scale imaginable... its what we do.

No layout is too big or too small to benefit from the addition of dedicated sound... hearing is believing in any scale! Ears are all full scale:)!

Pictured at right is the on board audio system design for 'No.2, The Phoebe', a 15" gauge electric steam outline ride-in loco. Not your typical scale model railroad, but one of our favorite projects to date.

Whatever you may be up to, the RailRoadies may be up to the challenge.

At left a design for a 7.5" gauge riding layout. Here the operation is more like a theme park attraction where events are cued/triggered when trains enter the tunnel block (from either end). Besides very real explosion sounds and lighting FX, audio driven lighting FX in lanterns light the scene and the approach to the mine entrance.

At right, the actual mine scene in Tunnel No. 2...

You never forget your 1st...

The Athabasca System, Granite Canyon Division, an N scale masterpiece by Clayton Berry.

Everything about this layout was extraordinary, and quite frankly, it would have been the 'Best in Show NMRA 2000", even without sound.

Our first RailRoadies client and layout sound project were both sweethearts!

Its quite possible Clay believed in us before we did...

Of course some of our clients have imaginative layouts that require highly unusual soundtrack design and one-of-a-kind audio system creation... No problems there.

Pictured here are some of the designs for a totally emersive layout experience, The Grand Funk Lines. Literally nothing of the basement layout room is ever visible to an operator or visitor. The systems and soundtracks for this pike mirror the visual image presented, and often 'bridge' between the scale model and the full scale environments through which the observer travels.

At left are speakers built into a full scale clock, and in a canary cage, speakers hidden in knotholes, and in the floor to ceiling rock scenery... among others.

Innovation at every turn...

We've been working with Joel & Jenny Bragdon in combining layout sound with their incredible Geodesic Foam Scenery system for 25 years. Dubbed, 'Talking Rocks' early on by Joel, the process has evolved into the seamless integration of aural and visual scenery!

The results are genuinely invisible, it was our very first innovation to hide sound 'in plain sight!

The Great Outdoors!

Sound outside is sort of a specialty:).

We've worked on outdoor projects from G to 18" gauge, and from garden to themepark!

Weather, tamper, critter proof: no problem... and Scale Magic™ Imaging works a treat in the great outdoors.

There is only one way to make your layout sound perfect... is by ear!

That means we make the final decisions WITH you, while listening on the scene speakers installed in the layout! The Fantasonics Enginears pioneered the L.I.V.E.™ Mix Down in the early eighties for themepark attractions. We were the first to successfully install speakers 'on board' audioanimatronics characters. And since no one had ever mixed and mastered while listening to moving speakers before... we brought the recording studio to the attraction site and set up in the audience positions. We knew exactly what every visitor would hear every time the show runs... we all heard it first:)!

Works in scale too!