First, please excuse the mess as I am still developing the website.

My name is James Adams and I go by the title The Railroad Designer. That is what I do. I design and build professional model railroad layouts. I designed and built my first personal railroad at the age of 9 and I joined my first modular railroad club at the age of 18.

​After 31 years of designing and building layouts for myself and as a member of several clubs over a 50 year span I decided to become a professional in 2010 and founded AffordableModelRailroads.com, in 2015 founded RailroadBackdrops.com and 2020 founded BackdropsOnly.com.

​While I still build a railroad or two each year, and I still operate the two backdrop companies I am looking to my future and am now transitioning to concentrate my efforts on the designing of layouts.

​Through this site I offer my services to those who want to hire a professional to do the design and layout plan for their dream layout. Hopefully I can also impart some wisdom on layout design to those who may want to learn something about designing their own layout.

Below are a couple pictures of layouts built be AffordableModelRailroads.com from my designs.