Gateway 2001 Model Railroads
on Layout Tours (A-B)
This is an online
reference to the model railroad layouts that were on
layout tours during the Gateway 2001 NMRA National
Convention in St. Louis (July 2001). The layouts are
described as they appeared during the July 2001
layout tours. Current descriptions of Greater St. Louis Area Model
Railroads are available in the Around Town section of our
website.
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Jim Agnew
Ajuga Flats
Katy
Flyer
Tour #52105, Thr 1:15 pm-5:45 pm, $18
Texas
Special
Tour #53104, Thr 6:15 pm-10:45 pm, $18
Jim has three separate G scale layouts, two inside
and one in the "wilds" of his backyard.
Indoors are a 20’x6’ dog bone featuring American
steam and diesel plus a 30’x3’ point to point
European prototype running under overhead wire. Outside
there is a 20’x38’ loop with several passing sidings
and spurs. The outdoor layout features Digitrax control
of motive power, Phoenix sound, and air pressure control
of the siding turnouts. Featured in the December 2000
issue of the NMRA Bulletin.
Jim Anderson
Eureka and Western
Ozark
Zephyr
Tour #43120, Wed 6:00 pm-10:30 pm, $18
Tour #53120, Thr 6:15 pm-10:45 pm, $18
This freelance HO layout is set in the midwest and
has been under development for over eight years. The 50’x12’
layout represents a Class 1 railroad with trackage
rights for all of the railroads found in eastern
Missouri and western Illinois. Featured are a large coal
mine and an oil refinery, along with an engine servicing
area and large yard. A multi-track staging yard is
hidden from view under the layout. DCC is being
installed.
Len Applebaum
New Mexico Western Railway
Daylight
Special
Tour #31116, Tue 7:30 am-12:15 pm, $18
Tour #41116, Wed 7:15 am-noon, $18
The HO scale NMWRR is a freelance modern day railroad
based on the ATSF and SP prototypes. The railroad
operates from Amarillo, TX to Barstow, CA with mostly
bridge traffic for the ATSF and SP. The area modeled is
central and western New Mexico. There are numerous
intermodal and coal trains on this 30’x40’ linear
walkaround layout with a double track mainline. Motive
power is mostly late generation diesels with thirty
trains a day passing through the area. 30" minimum
radius with spiral easements on code 83 wood and
concrete ties. Digitrax DCC control.
Noel Baker
Santa Fe La Junta Sub
Blue
Bonnet
Tour #32106, Tue 12:30 pm-5:30 pm, $18
Tour #33106, Tue 6:00 pm-11:00 pm, $18
Lone
Star
Tour #53108, Thr 6:00 pm-10:45 pm, $18
This 1,300 square foot HO railroad is one of the
larger single owner layouts around. The mainline is
point-to-point and double tracked with staging at both
ends. The era is the late 1930’s to the early 1950’s
so steam and diesel power is included. The locate is
Raton, New Mexico to La Junta, Colorado. Greg Gray did
the painted backdrop. Two large yard facilities are
planned with roundhouses, turntables as well as freight
and passenger yards. The model features more industrial
switching than the prototype.
Dave Bartz
Santa Fe
Morning
Star
Tour #42111, Wed 12:30 pm-4:45 pm, $18
Tour #51111, Thr 7:45 am-12:15 pm, $18
This 12’x32’ (with 7’x12’ staging yard) HO
layout depicts the Trinity Division of the Santa Fe
Railroad. Both steam, as well as diesels, are seen on
this 50's era empire. The double track main is protected
by operating 3-color signals, while operating dwarf
signals protect some 30 turnouts.
Bill Beilstein
Spirit
of St. Louis
Tour #21114, Mon 8:00 am-12:15 pm, $18
Tour #22114, Mon 1:15 pm-5:30 pm, $18
This freelance 30’x18’ HO layout is set
inMissouri and Illinois, 1960-1970. See diesel (and some
steam) trains cover ground on this Midwestern layout
with some Union Pacific run-throughs. Digitrax DCC, UP
mainline, switching industrial branchline.
Jim Bengert
Railroad Express
Evansville
Express
Tour #54125, Thr 7:00 am-5:00 pm, $45
Featured in the April 1998 issue of O-Gauge
Railway, this layout runs off TMCC command control.
Big Bend Railroad Club
Ozark & Springfield
Mark
Twain Zephyr
Tour #22113, Mon 12:30 pm-5:15 pm, $18
Tour #23113, Mon 6:00 pm-10:45 pm, $18
Built in the historic Webster Groves train station on
the Frisco mainline, this 18’x60’ O scale club
layout has a five scale mile mainline point to point
run, a stomping ground for Challengers, Big Boys, Y6Bs,
E8s, ABA F-unit lashups and impressive passenger
trainsets. The 40 members of the club, which has existed
since 1938, are proud of their rolling mountainous
scenery, a couple of really big bridges, and excellent
trackwork. The four mainlines are operated from controls
on an elevated platform above one end of the layout.
Scott Bimson
Alton and Southern
Banner
Blue
Tour #22109, Mon 1:15 pm-5:30 pm, $18
Tour #23109, Mon 6:30 pm-10:45 pm, $18
Prototype modeling of St. Louis and East St. Louis of
the 1970s-1980s is the setting of this 22’x34’ HO
railroad with many scratch and kit-bashed structures.
Digitrax DCC controls the over 1,000 feet of track
including a trip over the 25-foot long MacArthur Bridge.
Watch operations at Alton & Southern A&S hump
yard while other Midwestern railroads (UP, MP, CNW, MKT,
and others) arrive and depart the yard. Trains arrive
from a hidden staging yard. Approximately 20% of the
layout will be finished for the tour.
Ray Boismenue
Brittany Short Line
Katy
Flyer
Tour #52105, Thr 1:15 pm-5:45 pm, $18
Texas
Special
Tour #53104, Thr 6:15 pm-10:45 pm, $18
This G scale outdoor 17’x25’ layout features
three separate mains, bridges, and a large trestle.
Various steam and diesel powered trains will be seen
including locomotives and both sound and smoke. The BSL
has great buildings and beautiful plants.
Ralph Boyd
R&N Railroad
Sunshine
Special
Tour #23102, Mon 6:00 pm-10:45 pm, $18
Tour #33102, Tue 1:00 pm-5:45 pm, $18
This beautiful HO layout represents a fictitious
small branchline in the late 1940’s near Thurmond,
West Verginia, and features the Nickel Plate Railroad
serving two major coal mines and a small marshalling
yard. Much of the exposed single track in the 13’x27’
room is hand-laid and features a 33" minimum
radius, two reverse loops and hand-made turnouts.
Scratchbuilt and commercial kit structures dot the rural
landscape backed by hand painted distant mountains with
stormy and clear skies with clouds so real you’ll
forget they are painted. A creek edges Mill Creek Mine
#2 and flows by a deserted mill. Digitrax DCC.
Eric Brooman
Utah Belt
Blue
Bonnet
Tour #32106, Tue 12:30 pm-5:30 pm, $18
Tour #33106, Tue 6:00 pm-11:00 pm, $18
Lone
Star
Tour #53108, Thr 6:00 pm-10:45 pm, $18
Realistic
Scenery with Eric Brooman
Tour #42123, Wed 1:30 pm-5:30 pm, $30
The new Utah Belt is an expanded version of the
original with a similar modern southwest theme. Set in
northern New Mexico, the 165’ mainline runs through
desert and mountain scenes. A linear sound-the-walls
design with a central peninsula is used. The mainline
connects two staging areas of six 20’ reverse loops
stacked over each other. Intermodal, unit coal trains
and manifests pulled by modern EMD power keep the rails
polished on this intermountain bridge route. The
original Utah Belt was featured in many issues of both Model
Railroader and Railroad Model Craftsman.
Craig Brown
Copperplate / Rio Grande Southern
Ann
Rutledge
Tour #33115, Tue evening tba, $18
Tour #53115, Thr 6:00 pm – 10:45 pm, $18
This HOn3 Colorado layout features beautiful scenery,
backgrounds and hand-laid track. See Ophir Loop, Trout
Lake, and Lizard Head along with great trestles and
brass engines. This layout was featured in the March
2001 issue of the NMRA Bulletin.
Bob Buschart
City
of St. Louis
Tour #32112, Tue 1:15 pm-5:45 pm, $18
Tour #43112, Wed 6:00 pm-10:30 pm, $18
CB&Q is the emphasis on this large 30’x26’ HO
railroad, although both the UP and Santa Fe make their
appearance. Multi-cab lash-ups and long trains are
frequent on this layout which features three yards, one
of them primarily for reefers. A coal mine, diesel
facility and other assorted industries are in evidence.
Mountains and 800’ of track provide a setting in which
trains can appear and disappear seemingly at will.
Hidden yards below the layout provide storage for
several trains.
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