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A Picture Trip on Don Drum's Chicago & North Western, Lakeshore Division - Ashland District

A photo essay of the author's layout.

Climax Falls II

This is a 5'x22' layout which fits along one wall of the garage has become a family project.

Denis Mueller's D&S RR

This is a 13'x17' layout around three of the four walls of a room, with two peninsulas. Includes several photos and a track plan.

Edward Laity's Valley and Tekoa Railroad

The L-shaped 14' x 15' layout was built into a building in Edward's backyard and features the Virginia & Truckee in around 1885. Most of the structures are wood and many are scratchbuilt. The layout is mostly finished.

Franklin Junction on the Rio Grande Southern

A spare-bedroom-sized layout features an embellishment of the junction on the RGS around 1941. The layout features nice scenery and expansive-looking backdrops.

Fred Gill's Diamond Valley Line

This Australian layout is a freelanced model based on the American narrow gauge prototype.

Gene Wheeler's West Chicago to Sterling HO layout

A photo essay of the author's layout.

George Lochsky's Northern Pacific Layout

A long, skinny layout that models the Cascades to Puget Sound. Since the layout is a bit smaller, the owner was able to focus more attention to the details and the fantastic structures it features. The passenger station is modeled open facing the aisle, so the interior is fully visible.

Images from Ed Swain's PRR Layout

A few photos of the author layout are shown.

Jerry Fassnacht's Pennsy and Reading

In this interview-style article, Jerry is asked about this layout that models the Schuylkill branch of the Pennsylvania RR with a freelanced connection to the Reading & Columbia branch of the Reading. The layout was built by him and his brother. Includes a track plan of the entire layout.

John Peluso's Frisco Eastern Division

This is an interview-style article about the owner and his 16'x30' double-deck layout. Includes many photos and track plans of the layout.

Presentation Car 422

Scenes from Robert Todd' layout.

Rock Trains on the EBT

This layout models the East Broad Top in Pennsylvania, with connections to the standard gauge PRR. The layout was started in 1978 when the original part was designed by John Armstrong. Some prototype photos and lots of layout photos are included. Also included is the track plan for the HOn3 section of the layout.

Ron Christensen's C&NW and Milwaukee Railroad

A photo essay of the author's layout.

Scenes from Clark Propst's M&StL Layout Under Construction

A photo essay of the author's layout.

Scranton, 1937: The Steamtown Diorama

This is the story of how the model railroad display at the Steamtown National Historic Site came about and what it is supposed to model. Includes several photos of the layout, as well as one prototype photo from era the layout is to represent.

The Golden Era Los Angeles in the 1950's

12 by 19-foot layout features the SP in L.A. The article is a photo essay that takes you around the layout.

The Iron Wood RR

This spare-bedroom layout features very nicely done scenery with scratchbuilt structures set in early 1940s.

The Ironhead Timber Co.

The 10' by 16' layout features a lot of detail and very nice scenery. Not all of it was finished at the time of the article. The theme is logging railroading in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1900s.

The Last Run of the Pennsylvania & Maryland

A fictional story built around the author's layout. Lots of photos, but no layout data.

The New Poco Valley

Reclaiming the space used by his children's layout, the author expanded and completed the basement before building this "E"-shaped layout. The article briefly describes the construction process, but its focus is on operations. Includes photos, trackplan, and operations sequence and forms.

The Pennsylvania Railroad

The layout features signature scenes of the PRR's 4-track mainline in a 13'x37' layout. Staging tracks are in a separate room. Includes many photos and a track plan.

The Ramapo Valley

The layout is an around-the-wall style layout with a large J-shaped peninsula into the middle of the room. It features lots of switching. There a quite a few close-up photos of the layout. The layout is loosely based on the Erie Lackawanna in northern New Jersey. It models a double-track mainline between Hoboken and Ridgewood with one branch line.

Touring the SP Western Division

This around-the-walls with a peninsula layout features a large model of the SP's Oakland Mole passenger station. A sidebar shows how two Walthers kits were combined to create a smelter and refining complex.

Visit Paul Novak's Gold Creek Railway

The author describes his introduction into the hobby, and then describes the layout that will be open as part of the 2014 NMRA convention in Cleveland, Ohio. The layout is set in the 1950s. There are lots of photos accompanying the article.