Welcome to Cougill Studios

     This site is for modelers who are curious about P48 and prototype modeling. The layout featured here is my own Indiana & Whitewater, a two foot wide by 24 foot long shelf style layout built to P48 standards. My first book Pieces of The Puzzle, tells the story of the decision process for the designing the layout. Additionally, there are two free e-books available for downloading that cover the techniques used to lay the track (see the links in the sidebar to the left). 

     My goal with this site is to take away the mystery that 

often surrounds P48 modeling and to show what O Scale

has to offer in the 21st Century. To that end, I've added 

some new pages showing a boxcar project I'm working on. 

Click the link here, or look under the "New Projects" tab in 

the tool bar up top.

    Enjoy the site.

    Mike Cougill


New: Detailing Track Update:

   The new book, Detailing Track is almost finished. The 

link to the left will take you to a new page containing an 

update about the progress on the book.    

    Look for details about the new book, Detailing Track, on the site in the near future. Thanks for hanging in with me, and thank you to all who have downloaded the two e-books. To date there have been over 1500 downloads.


O Scale Trains Magazine Blog

   As the current editor of O Scale Trains Magazine, I

post questions, comments and occasional dumb remarks   

on the OST Blog. If you are interested, the link will take 

you there.


Contact form

   Checking the stats from my web host, I noticed the 

contact page had a number of hits. I you have tried to 

contact me via this form, and I haven't responded, it's 

because I have not received that mail. I admit to being 

technically ignorant in these matters and may be 

misinterpreting the stats. Hang in with me as I try to figure 

it out.


Copyright 2010 Michael L. Cougill