Scale: G Birchwood & St. Croix Railroad models narrow gauge railroad from the late 1800’s through early 1900's. The Shay locomotive on the logging train is a scale model of the Shays invented specifically for logging in the late 1800's and early 1900's. The other locomotives are also scale models of narrow gauge steam engines with specific histories from that era. The … [Read more...] about Birchwood & St. Croix Railroad
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Manns Creek
Scale: On3 The Manns Creek Railway operated 9 miles of track from Clifftop and Sewell West Virginia from 1886 to 1955. The railway's primary function was to haul coal down from Clifftop to Sewell and convert it into Coke. Logging was also done in the area around Clifftop. Logs were cut and hauled to a sawmill in Landisburg then shipped down to Sewell to be reloaded into … [Read more...] about Manns Creek
Minneapolis & Northland Railroad Company
Scale: HO "The Lakeland Route". The Minneapolis & Northland Railroad Company is a standard gauge short line railroad located in central Minnesota. This freelance railroad is an east-west bridge route connecting the Great Northern Railway on the east end, the Chicago North Western at the mid-point, the Milwaukee Road on the west end and the Chicago Great Western on a … [Read more...] about Minneapolis & Northland Railroad Company
Sierra Railroad
Scale: HOn3 & HO This large, multi-level layout is a point-to-point branch line railroad set in the California "Mother Lode Country" in the early 1950s. The Sierra railroad connects the Hetch Hetchy, West Side Logging Company and Pickering Lumber Company railroads with the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railroads at Oakland, California to serve the local industries from … [Read more...] about Sierra Railroad
RGS Ophir Loop
Scale: On3 The inspiration for this layout originates back to the 1990s and the layout owner seeing photographs of the Rio Grande Southern railroad. With the help from both Sundance Publications' 'RGS Series' of books and multiple family vacation visits to Southwest Colorado, the layout owner selected 'The Loop' at Ophir, Colorado for his latest layout project. The first … [Read more...] about RGS Ophir Loop