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| Richard Harden | C&NW Peninsula Division | The C&NW Peninsula Div. is set in the 40’s and 50’s and is basically free lanced. I chose this time period because like many others I like to run steam and also first generation diesels. Most of the locomotives have sound and all are equipped with decoders. The layout in controlled by “EasyDCC” from CVP Products. | Let's See It! |
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| Barry Hensel | Reading Lines Central Division | The Reading Lines-Central Division is a proto-freelanced layout. The track plan is totally fictional, towns are named for real places the Reading served. Locomotives and rolling stock are appropriate for what the Reading used during the time period modeled. | Let's See It! |
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| Norm Logan | Michigan Southern | The Michigan Southern Railway is a 25x25 HO layout in Northville Michigan. The Layout features three decks with a helix. This switching layout is basically a point-to-point single track main containing lots of of operation in each of its 13 towns. | Let's See It! |
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| Marty Laforte | BNSF Spartan Division | The Spartan Division is a proto-freelanced layout of the Burlington Northern reflecting the results of rejecting the proposed merger with the Santa-Fe. The layout is a round the wall layout consisting of 200 feet of dual mainline with staging yards at Omaha and Portland/Long Beach. | Let's See It! |
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| Jim Tilley | Pennsylvania RR & B&O RR | Multi-Level urban & mountainous scenery. Interchanges with the P&LE, Erie and C&O railroads. Operations include freight and passenger trains with pusher and dedicated switcher service. | Let's See It! |
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| Walt Plentis | Pennsylvania RR Altoona | An under construction whole room multi-level HO layout with all hand made turnouts. It represents the Pennsylvania Railroad in and around Altoona including the infamous "Horseshoe Curve"! | Let's See It! |
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| Ted Pilchak | Erie Lackawanna Port Jervis Division | The Port Jervis Division of The Erie Lackawanna Railroad is a 23' x 20' mostly double tracked layout. It is a loose interpretation of the EL between Port Jervis New York, and Binghamton New York. The double main goes to single trackage for a short distance, because of bridge & tunnel requirements (also for operating interest!). | Let's See It! |
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| Jim Zinser | The Copper Valley Railway | The layout models The Copper Valley Railway, a fictitious feeder line that interchanges with The Milwaukee Road in McKeever, Michigan. The railroad also interchanges with the SOO line and the DSS&A in Houghton, Michigan. | Let's See It! |
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| Howard Andrews | Pittsburgh Railways Company | Inspired by Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRC), which once had over 600 miles of track running throughout the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area, this PRC is a set of modules built to the East Penn Traction Club Standards. | Let's See It! |
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| Roger Perry | Great Northern Washington State | This layout is modeled after the Great Northern Railroad in Washington State Circa 1936 | Let's See It! |
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| Bill Rubarth | Southern Pacific Solano | The model that brought back forgotten history. One of the largest and busiest train ferries in the world, and sailed as part of the SP’s double track mainline Transcontinental Route between Sacramento and San Francisco for 51 years. | Let's See It! |
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| Don Barron | Southern Pacific White Lake Division | The White Lake Division of the Southern Pacific located in a 30' x 40' room, it models the transition era from steam through first generation of diesels. It is modeled in the rural-suburban areas of southern California with beautiful backdrops by Norm Logan! | Let's See It! |
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| Pierre Willermet | Allegheny & Eastern | Freelanced, Designed for operation, HO 20' x 25', 80% sceniced controlled by CVP-DCC Radio throttles. Running on the system are many sound equipped steam and diesel locomotives! | Let's See It! |
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| Mike Tranquilla | Burlington Pacific | A freelanced HO scale layout modeling the agricultural west in Illinois and Eastern Iowa. The layout is mostly sceniced and run by DCC, in which the locomotive are complete with sound! | Let's See It! |
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| Larry Wright | Beaver Valley & Pennsylvania | | Let's See It! |
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| Bill Neale | Pennsylvania RR Panhandle Division | A Proto Typical HO all steam layout of the Pennsylvania Railroad moving steel & coal over their Panhandle Division. The layout is 60-70% sceniced and is controled by a DCC System. | Let's See It! |
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| Bob Polasky | Camas Prairie Railroad | Proto Typical/Freelanced, HO 12' x 13.5' around the walls, 53" - 55" high, Domino method bench work, Time period Oct. 1977, 53' of main line, DC control w/walk around throttle, Car Card operation, Scenery 25% complete. | Let's See It! |
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| Jay Qualman | Michigan Lines Detriot Gateway | A HO layout prototypically, operationally, and historically accurate depicting selected railroad lines radiating from the Detroit-Windsor riverfront. Featured railroads are the Pere Marquette, Michigan Central/NYC, GTW, Wabash, PRR and Ann Arbor. The era is the early-1950’s, with a specific date for each route modeled. | Let's See It! |
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| Redford Model RR Club | Sandhill & Western | Sandhill & Western, Freelanced HO 26' X 52' layout with 471' of double track mian and 302' of single track main. It has great scenery that is about 80% complete and runs both Steam & Diesel locomotive using the CVP DCC System. | Let's See It! |
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| Paul Omilian | Geriville Railroad | A 20' x 10' two level walk-in layout, 95% scenery completed. A small-town Bridge Railroad servicing a large industrial district and a coal mine. It has 3 staging yards and interchanges with 2 class A railroads. | Let's See It! |
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| Richard Murphy | | Switching Operation with Coal Mine and Industrial areas. Several scratch built wooden bridges. Layout is still under construction will run early 1900's steam. | Let's See It! |
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| Frank Spadafore | New York Central | An HO layout encompasing two rooms with a conecting shelf. The layout is set for continuos running, controlled by GMC DC Throttles. Towns and industry during the steam to diesel era and is 70 - 75% sceniced. | Let's See It! |
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Jim Reading & Bill Deeter | 4R's Chesapeake & Ohio RR | An HO scale layout of the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) Railroad during the transition period. The layout houses two large yards, an operable Coaling Dock complete with a scratch built barge and lots of industry for operational pleasure. | Let's See It! |
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| Ron King | Erie Railroad | | Let's See It! |
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| Larry Wolohon | Great Northern Whitefish Division | An HO Scale layout of the Great Northern Railroad during the late 1940's. The proto-typical rolling stock is powered by Steam and early Diesel locomotives. | Let's See It! |
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| Dewey Norton | Norfolk & Western Clinch River Division | Proto typical HO scale model railroad of the Norfolk & Western Clinch River Branch coal country in 1936. The layout is a point to point design controlled by DCC with sound and is 65 percent sceniced. | Let's See It! |
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| Milt Moore | Gibraltar & NYC RR S.E Michigan | A 20' x 28' HO 90% sceniced layout with a double track New York Central railroad mainline and a single track Gibraltar railroad mainline. The layout encompases an area from Detroit Michigan to Toledo Ohio to Adrian Michigan. | Let's See It! |
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| John Wissinger | Alleghany Midland Connellsville Division | A 13 x 24 HO layout set in the 1930's featuring traction & steam, currently controlled by DC block control (DCC conversion in near future) | Let's See It! |
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| Glenn Joppich | | | |
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| Ed Joppich | | | |
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| Hank & Doug Meyer | | | |
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| Tom Harris/Henry Ford | | | |
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| Ron King | | | |
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