The Stephenson, Cedar River & Eastern Railway

Scale: On30

The Stephenson, Cedar River & Eastern Railway is set in the 1910-1915 and traverses a short run of 15 miles between Stephenson, Mi and Cedar River, Mi, a port town on lake Michigan. The layout was begun in 2016 and the SCR&ER is built for operations and typically sees over 10 trains during a 3-4 hour operating session. Locomotives are equipped with TCS Wow sound decoders and are controlled with ProCab throttles from NCE.

Era/Locale: 1910 – 1915 – NW Michigan
Size: 61′ x 14′ with a 16′ extension
Benchwork: 100%
Track: 100%
Scenery: 25%

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From Minnesota Digital Library:

“The growth of Minnesota can be tied directly to the growth of railroads. The railroads supported farmers, millers, miners, and loggers by moving the raw materials they produced to sell at markets. In turn, the railroads brought other goods and products to the people to build their homes, businesses, and towns. Railroads also brought immigrants to settle the land and provided jobs and income to laborers and investors.

Three of Minnesota’s major railroads were the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, and the Soo Line. While these three were not the only railroads that operated in Minnesota, they had a major impact on the state.

The U.S. Congress chartered the Northern Pacific Railway in 1864 to build a transcontinental railroad from Lake Superior to the Pacific coast. When it was completed in 1883, the railroad had laid nearly 6,800 miles of track through Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Its headquarters were in St. Paul, Minnesota.”

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