Under construction, an HO scale model railroad based on a rural branch somewhere in Kansas, during the 1960’s.
Santa Fe with a Rock Island interchange.
I have been modeling US railroads since 1999, having previously had a variety of European N and HOm scale layouts for the previous 25 years (and having been brought up with a model railroad in the house since I was very young) !
Development so far;-
Situated in the Guest Bedroom, along 3 of the walls, about 13′ x 14′.
I had the baseboards made for me, far better than I could do!
They stand 52″ from the ground, with up to another 1/2″ layer of foam on top, to allow for landscaping. Also gives some grades to add more interest.
Track is Peco Code 83, along with their Electrofrog turnouts, on the main, with Micro Engineering Code 70 / 55 track / turnouts for the spurs / sidings.
Control is DCC, via a Digitrax Super Chief.
Motive power is a mixture of Atlas, Athearn, Broadway Limited and P2K, some come with decoders fitted, others have had them installed. Also, some are sound fitted, but I turn down the volume so its fairly unobstrusive.
I have started on some scenery, but its just an initial covering to take the bareness away! Now completed is the trackwork in the staging yard and a few more structures. Ballasting is also slowly in progress too! I have started on the terminus too, just!
Also established an operating sequence / timetable, along with car cards / waybills, using a random integer generator to decide on the number of freight cars in the outbound service from the yard!
I’ll update information, photos and plans as I go along, however, progress has slowed down due to waiting for more ME turnouts to arrive from the US (at present it seems production has stopped?).
Thank you for looking.
Any constructive comments to brian@deadwoodcityrailroad.com please!