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 The Abrams Railroad
Empire (ARE) models the "Anachronistic Era." It's
a 20 foot by 22 foot walk-around HO layout that
focuses on operations using Car Cards and DCC in 5
operating yards and 7 towns. Track Warrants protect key single line
blocks. All switching is power routed, controlled by
strategically placed CTC panels for yards and mainline. Scenery
features urban backdrop and a
cut-away tunnel. The ARE provides the crews a fun night of comraderie
and challenges during the sessions, often making you wish you had more
time to run trains ! Proprietor: Marshall Abrams |
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 The Cumberland
&
Susquehanna Railroad is a
free-lance model railroad depicting a 3-ft. gauge coal hauler in
south-central Pennsylvania
inspired by the East Broad Top Railroad, a narrow gauge common carrier
that connected the Broad Top semi-bituminous coal field with the
Pennsylvania Railroad in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Proprietor:
Dean Mellander. |
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 The Eagle
Pass RR is
a 4x6 layout representing a Class I branch line, somewhere in the
southwestern U.S, during the early 1960s. It is loosely based on the UP
and SantaFe, though it doesn't follow either prototype exactly. The
terrain represented is southwestern desert mesa. Proprietor: Dave Arday. |
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Lance Mindheim models Miami's East Rail District. The site
is divided into two sections. The first section is a collection
of "photo paintings" edited from shots taken on his trip to Miami in
February of 2006. The second section features images from the HO
scale model railroad. |
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 The
Hudson
Point and Hawthorne Railroad is designed for "Point to Point"
Operation with optional "continuous running." Hudson Point Yard
represents the Eastern terminus of the railroad. The only access by
rail to the City of Hawthorne is via floats and barges at the
waterfronts. All of the track within the City of Hawthorne is a
separately operated railroad. The city railroad is largely a switching
operation. Real estate on the city side is at a premium so the yard is
small. It takes very sharp railroaders to keep traffic flowing in the
city! Proprietor: Ken Spranza. |
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| The Ivy City Eastern Railroad
is a representation of the Northeast Corridor between Washington, DC
and Perryville, MD. It is an HO scale, modular layout that I hope will
be able to represent the operations on that portion of the NEC. Some of
the structures are will likely be scratchbuilt. Proprietor: Stirling
Millar. |
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| Visit the KayDee LugBahn. The KDLB is a European Lego train layout. |
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 Alan Anderson's HO
scale Kristenville
&
Michelleville Railroad started in early 1977. Designed as a
freelanced 1920's era, steam powered railroad, it serves the limestone
quarries and Al's Brewery, each located on the outskirts of
Kristenville. The Board of Directors recognized the potential for
some logging business and extended the line into the
mountains. The Kristenville Yard was expanded to its present
capabilities. Alantown boomed with the expanded yard, the thriving K-M
Sawmill Co., and the K-M Lumbering Co. The small Michelleville
Railroad near Passwater Interchange was in financial trouble and was
bought for incorporation into the KMRR. |
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 The Long Island Rail
Road Lower Montauk Branch provides maps of the Long Island City
Area 1953 and 1860, articles by Nick Kalis, modeling hints, layout
description, prototype and layout photos, and a series of glimpses into
industries or warehouses that made for interesting freight operations
on the Long Island. Information presented includes a brief history of
the firm, how it was served by the LIRR, and what commodities were
received or shipped from this facility. Proprietor: Nick Kalis. |
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 A lot
of planning has gone into the
Nickel City Line, an HO Scale model railroad set in the
Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania. The railroad is a free-lanced
short line railroad which operates 102 miles of single track mainline
between Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Ridgway Pennsylvania. The railroad
is operations oriented.
Operators run trains on a fast clock and adhere to specific rules and
instructions given by a Dispatcher. NMRA Members who operate on the
Nickel City Line can earn hours towards their Chief DispatcherAP
Certificate. Proprietor: Bob Rodriguez. |
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 Jim Brewer is in the process of
building an HO scale
model railroad in his 3300
square foot basement depicting the Norfolk
and Western Railroad (now part of Norfolk Southern Railroad) along
the Shenandoah River between Hagerstown, Maryland, and Roanoke,
Virginia. The period is 1956; the transition period of steam and
diesel. Modeled is 80 miles of the N&W Shenandoah Valley between
Front Royal and Waynesboro, Virginia, with Hagerstown and Roanoke
represented by eleven common staging tracks, each almost 40 feet long.
Interchange is with the Southern Railroad in Front Royal, the
Chesapeake Western Railroad in Elkton and the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad in Waynesboro. |
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The Piedmont
Southern Railroad is an HO scale, 150' mainline, 22' x 24' ,
freelance railroad set in the Blue Ridge mountains and the Shenandoah
Valley. The layout is about 90% sceniced and features mostly
handlaid track and scratchbuilt or kitbashed structures. My
structures have won three first place awards at MER conventions, two
'Blue Lantern' awards and two 'Best in Show' awards. A photo tour of
the layout has been accepted by Model Railroader for
future publication. About half of the layout features the main
and a branchline of the Piedmont Southern passing through the
Shenandoah Valley while the other half has it passing through the
mountains to the west. There it serves several coal mines.
Much of the coal is transported to a river barge facility while the
remainder goes to online customers and off-line via staging. The
entire layout represents the summer of 1955 except for the branch to
Shenandoah. As you travel down the branch the the colder it gets
as the scenery transistions from summer to fall to early winter. There
are thousands of trees covering the mountains. They are all made from
natural growths (weeds) with a few "Super Trees" used here and there.
The backdrop is handpainted. Scenery is my favorite part of the
hobby and is the highlight of the layout. The layout operates with
timetable and train orders. Proprietor: Dale
Latham |
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 Howard Zane’s HO Piermont
Division of the Western Maryland Railroad showcases Fifties era
Appalachian railroading using equipment from the Clinchfield, Western
Maryland, Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk & Western. Since 1992
Howard has increased the layout area to 2850 square feet. Howard
considers the Piermont to be a painting created with plaster, paper,
foam, rocks and dirt where he can bring to life the fabled coal hauling
roads of the east. The railroad features spectacular bridges, deep
scenes and breathtaking vistas. |
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 The
Potomac and Patuxent Railroad (P&P) is a modestly successful
urban railroad serving a diverse industrial base in southeast
Washington, DC. Steam operations are set in May 1947, and diesel
operations are set in May 1957. The code 125 and 100 hand laid rail in
O-scale depicts the realism of lighter weight rail. Placement of hand
laid switches does create some interesting switching moves. Proprietor:
Ken Nesper. |
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 Mike White is building the Solomons
and Patuxent Railroad
(the S&P), an HO scale fictional short line operating between the
villages of Solomons and Owings in Calvert County, Maryland. The
right-of-way follows the real-world graded path of the never-completed
Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad for most of its 30 or so miles
through the county. It is a country railroad serving rural people,
businesses, and industries in the Great Depression month of October
1936. |
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 Dave Renard, MMR, built the
Sylvania
Central Railroad to depict the Central Division of an eastern
bridge road hauling mixed freight and passenger traffic during the mid
1960s. With mostly
an urban setting featuring scratch-built and kit bashed
structures,trains run from a coal mining area to a tidewater terminal
with a rotary coal dumper. Three hidden staging areas route
trains over this central division of a presumed larger line.
Local way freights out of Sylvania Yard share the mainline and branches
with through freight and passenger trains. The 40-yr. old layout
operates now with DCC and some sound equipped locos.
Several hundred figures and small details along the right-of-way depict
irony, satire, and humor to the most observant. Subtle scenic
features incorporate materials collected from travels around the world. |
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 The
Tennessee
Pass N Scale model railroad depicts heavy duty mountain
railroading during the 1990s in Tennessee Pass, CO. This is right after
the DRGW-SP merger and the railroad was very busy. The site shows an
interactive track plan, CTC system, prototype photos, finished scenes,
and construction photos. Featured in Model Railroad Planning 2006.
Proprietor: Bernard Kempinski. |
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 The Unicorn Mountain
Railway operated from 1987 through 1999. During it's construction
the railway was featured in the January-February issue of Garden
Railways Magazine and was on display during the 1992 and the 1997
National Garden Railway conventions. |
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