Paul Cassar joins us from Sydney, Australia and tells us about his River Belt Line HO scale shelf layout. He shares the process of building this 18’ x 18’ switching layout in his garage using commercial shelving units. We also learn about the wildly popular HO Scale Shelf Modelers Facebook group that Paul administers and find out how he’s worked to crack the Facebook algorithm and grow the group to over 9.3 thousand members.

Check out Paul's River Belt Line: https://www.facebook.com/The-River-Belt-Line-400978519962021

The HO Scale Shelf Modelers Facebook group can be found at https://www.facebook.com/groups/484711889437745

Paul recommends you check out Boomer Diorama for great modeling tips:
https://www.youtube.com/c/BoomerDioramasTheImmersiveModelRailroad

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