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Layouts

Mark Saphir

Left photo shows the main control section consisting of 2 panels. There are 3 panels with 1215 devices hardwired to their components on the layout.

Martin Pirnat

Mike May

This HOn3 layout is located in a condominium using the main floor for the layout and a full CTC panel upstairs. Mike is also a certified railroad engineer and works for Rail Events. Though a small layout it hosts excellent operations sessions.

Ray Schmudde

The SRVN is a proto-freelanced contemporary short line in a 10 x 13 spare bedroom, inspired by—but not modeled after—the San Luis and Rio Grande (now the Colorado Pacific Rio Grande Railroad) in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. A shelf layout with a center peninsula, the 70-foot main line features continuous running capability but is operated point-to-point. A 50-foot branch takes off from the main line and climbs to a second deck along three sides of the room. Shelf width varies from 7 to 12 inches. The SRVN ships freight via its two connecting gateways, one east (BNSF and UP) and one west (UP). Grain, hay, lumber, molybdenum ore, potash, potatoes, and pulpwood are SRVN’s outbound traffic, with agricultural chemicals and fuel making up most inbound loads. The local coal mine has recently been abandoned. Power is by first- and second-generation diesels, all DCC. Visitors are most welcome.

Sean Jackson

RR Name: Woodstock Short Line. Scale: HOn3 with eventual HO trolley line and HOn30 mine tram. Era/locale: 1941 Southwest Colorado. Room size: 19 ft by 15 feet, in a garage. Description: A proto-freelanced branch line and mainline of a narrow-gauge common carrier using equipment leased from the C&S, D&RGW, and RGS. The Woodstock Short Line will include a terminal city, i.e. Durango, and a branch line to boom town River Bend and the mining district of Red Hill and Woodstock. A future trolley line will connect a small tourist town with the larger city as well.

George Bogatiuk

HO standard gauge featured in many Soundtraxx YouTube videos.