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Gateway 2001 Model Railroads
on Layout Tours (C-J)
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.
Tip: Click on photos to view larger,
high-resolution versions.
Harold Dill
Santa Fe – Western Division
Micro
Engineering (prototype tour) 22216 & 52216
This fine HO layout is based on Harold’s 40 years
as a fireman and engineer on the Santa Fe’s Western
Division between Newton and Dodge City, Kansas. The
layout concept is to have many trains, passenger and
freight, steam through with minimal operator input. It
is based on rail-fanning rather that prototype
operation. The 19’x41’ layout includes 165’ of
code 83 double tracked mainline with additional hidden
trackage. Set in the 1940-1960 era, steam and diesel
locomotives pull their loads through the beautifully
landscaped scenes.
Gateway Division NMRA
Gateway Central 8
Busch Stadium Display
Each year the Gateway Division creates a project
layout which is given away at our annual train show.
This year’s highly transportable project layout
demonstrates what can be done in HO in a minimum space
(3'8" by 5'8") and features donated items from
Life-Like, Atlas, Bachmann, Woodland Scenics, Athearn,
Badger-Modelflex, and other manufacturers.
Herb Gilden
Hi-Sioux Southern Railroad
City
of St. Louis
Tour #32112, Tue 1:15 pm-5:45 pm, $18
Tour #43112, Wed 6:00 pm-10:30 pm, $18
This 38’x12’ HO railroad features the prototype
Southern Railroad during the 1950-1970 period. It was
featured in the May 2000 issue of Model Railroader.
This steam and diesel layout has a dog bone mainline
depicting the Smoky Mountain areas of Tennessee and the
Carolinas. The Smoky Power Co. has been recreated along
with a very large yard. Coal and wood (for charcoal) are
the main commodities. The layout features a scratchbuilt
Union Station and power plant, seven bridges, a trestle,
heavy industrial manufacturing, extensive coal mining
areas, plus a working 3-color signal system. There is
also a scratchbuilt dam, outstanding backdrops, and a
lighted city by night.
Ric Golding
Kaskaskia Valley Railway
Missouri
River Eagle
Tour #22101, Mon 12:30 pm-6:00 pm, $18
Tour #33101, Tue 5:30 pm-11:00 pm, $18
This beautifully laid out and executed G garden
railroad has over 400’ feet of track with more under
construction. A point to point plan provides operational
variety for both steam and diesel locomotives and uses
various radio-control battery powered equipment and
sound systems (Locolink, RCS, Aristo Train Engineer).
Structures, water effects, innovative garden railroad
design concepts. Featured cover layout in the May 2001 NMRA
Bulletin.
Chuck Graham
Cumbres & Toltec
Blue
Bonnet
Tour #32106, Tue 12:30 pm-5:30 pm, $18
Tour #33106, Tue 6:00 pm-11:00 pm, $18
The Fourth Division is a 13’x13’ two-level layout
depicting standard and narrow gauge from Alamosa
(Colorado) westward to Chama (New Mexico) and beyond.
The upper level is a loop-to-loop narrow gauge featuring
Chama, Cumbres Pass and a freelanced Toltec Mining
District. Operation includes locomotive sound and
occasional doubleheaders up The Hill. Scenery on the
upper level is 75% complete with most of the structures,
many scratchbuilt, in place. The lower level is still
under construction, and will have a dual gauge yard at
Alamosa with connections to a standard gauge folded loop
and a 4½ turn narrow gauge helix to the upper level.
DCC and Soundtraxx in HO/HOn30.
Greg Gray
San Miguel Southern Railroad
Daylight
Special
Tour #31116, Tue 7:30 am-12:15 pm, $18
Tour #41116, Wed 7:15 am-noon, $18
Painting
Realistic Backdrops with Greg Gray
Tour #52124, Thr 1:00 pm-5:00 pm, $30
 The On3, SMS RR is patterned
after the Rio Grande Southern and runs from Telluride to
Ridgeway, Colorado where it interchanges with both a
standard Colorado & Pacific) and On2 guage (the
Silver Ridge) railroad.  Great running motive power
takes a back seat to the  magnificent mountains and
painted backdrops which recreate the grandeur of
Colorado. Digitrax Radio Chief. This layout was featured
in the August 2000 issue of the NMRA Bulletin. Digital
images by Tom Troughton. High Iron. Switching. Railroad Crossing.
Kevin Hampton
CSX Cumberland Division
Banner
Blue
Tour #22109, Mon 1:15 pm-5:30 pm, $18
Tour #23109, Mon 6:30 pm-10:45 pm, $18
Blue
Bird
Tour #51110, Thr 7:00 am-12:15 pm, $18
Tour #52110, Thr 1:00 pm-6:15 pm, $18
Enjoy a trip to the Allegheny Mountains of
Southwestern Pennsylvania and Northwestern Maryland as
you tour the Cumberland Division of the CSX from
Cumberland to Connellsville. The layout features the
world famous Sandpatch grade where multiple unit modern
horsepower heads up unit trains of coal, autoracks, and
intermodal double stacks. Amtrak appears twice a day and
tourist trains operated by the Somerset and Taylorsville
Railroad are also seen. This modern, around the walls,
HO layouts fills a 23’x43’ basement and uses
Digitrax DCC. Visible track is code 83 and code 70, some
hand laid. The over 200 foot mainline is supported by
staging for thirty-two trains in hidden yards.
John "Helix" Hardy
St. Jacques Northern / Great Northern
Daylight
Special
Tour #31116, Tue 7:30 am-12:15 pm, $18
Tour #41116, Wed 7:15 am-noon, $18
This freelance 30’x33’ railroad runs from Chicago
to Seattle. The main area modeled is on the Columbia
River in western Washington. Great Northern has running
rights on this 1947-1970 era layout featuring code 83
main lines and code 70 yard trackage, lots of mountains,
and some river traffic. Oh yes, you can find a few
custom designed helixes here as well.
Ken Hartley
Baltimore & Ohio
Spirit
of St. Louis
Tour #21114, Mon 8:00 am-12:15 pm, $18
Tour #22114, Mon 1:15 pm-5:30 pm, $18
B&O of the 50s runs through a number of scenes
patterned after the prototype. Watch sixty different
twenty-car trains appear and disappear at different
locations east and west along the mainline. See them
leaving and arriving New York City, whizzing or creeping
between Baltimore and Washington, DC, going up or down
the eastern slope of the Allegheny Mountains in the
Potomac River valley, through the Alleghenies – and
all on four track operation. HO 32’x24’, with one
aisle enclosed by a B&O coach.
Jim & Sheila Heizer
Union Pacific – Helix Division
Colorado
Eagle
Tour #42103, Wed 12:30 pm-5:15 pm, $18
Tour #43103, Wed, 6:00 pm-10:45 pm, $18
The "UP Helix Division" is a family project
started in 1997. It is located in Sheila’s garage
which is now the train room (the garage door was
replaced by a wall). The 12’x18’ layout has three
levels connected by a double track seven-turn helix
which includes 16 switches and two reversing ways and a
reversing loop. Control is by Digitrax, with Red
Caboose, Intermountain, IMX, Proto 2000 and OMI rolling
stock. The layout is set in the transition period for
steam and diesel operations.
Gary Hoover
Missouri, Kansas & Quincy
Banner
Blue
Tour #22109, Mon 1:15 pm-5:30 pm, $18
Tour #23109, Mon 6:30 pm-10:45 pm, $18
Blue
Bird
Tour #51110, Thr 7:00 am-12:15 pm, $18
Tour #52110, Thr 1:00 pm-6:15 pm, $18
Model
Railroad Photography with Gary Hoover
Tour #41155, Wed morning tba, $30
Tour #42145, Wed afternoon tba, $30
Tour #43122, Wed 6:30 pm-10:30 pm, $30
  The MK&Q is a contemporary layout
occupying 1,200 square feet. The railroad features
highly detailed individual scenes from the Midwest to
the California Coast. It was the featured layout in Great
Model Railroads 1994 and has appeared in numerous Model
Railroader and Walther’s catalog photos. You will
see tree covered ridges and mountains in summer as well
as with winter snow. See the desert, red rock canyons,
plus an unbelievable ocean scene. Tunnel doors open and
close, warning lights flash, and semaphore signals
display track status. MK&Q and Santa Fe/BNSF
locomotives power most of the traffic, with CSX and Utah
Railway also common. Most recently featured in the
October 2000 issue of Model Railroader and Allen
Keller’s "Great Model Railroads 34" video. Photos
by Gary Hoover. Snowscene. Red Rock Canyon.
Rich Jennings
Megan’s Ferry Railroad
Morning
Star
Tour #42111, Wed 12:30 pm-4:45 pm, $18
Tour #51111, Thr 7:45 am-12:15 pm, $18
Megan’s Ferry is a fictional town in mid-Missouri
drawn from memories of the real towns of Fayette,
Glasgow, New Franklin, Booneville and Rocheport. It is
served by the family owned and operated shortline, Megan’s
Ferry Railroad, with interchange from the Missouri
Pacific and Missouri-Kansas-Texas. The layout is HO
scale on an "L" girder shelf 32 feet long and
up to 3 feet deep. The timeframe is October during the
late 1950’s. This is the 4th Megan’s
Ferry layout, with many of the buildings carried forward
with each improved version.
Bob Johnson
Pseudo SOO
Blue
Bonnet
Tour #32106, Tue 12:30 pm-5:30 pm, $18
Tour #33106, Tue 6:00 pm-11:00 pm, $18
The new Pseudo Soo Line (PSL) is the reincarnation of
the well known PSL in Golden Valley, Minnesota. Over 250
model railroaders visited the old PSL, and it hosted two
operation sessions, during the NorthStar99 NMRA National
Convention. The new PSL is in a 50’x22’ area using
an around the wall design with a long center peninsula.
The mainline is a closed loop with two single ended
staging yards that represent Sault Ste. Marie (the Soo)
and Minneapolis. The modeled portion of the railroad
runs from Rhinelander to Cameron, in north-central
Wisconsin. Branchlines reach Rice Lake and Ashland. The
layout is set in the mid-1950’s. Digitrax DCC. The
backdrop features over 50 feet done with stamp art by
Prue Johnson.
Brad Joseph, MMR
Union Pacific
Missouri
River Eagle
Tour #22101, Mon 12:30 pm-6:00 pm, $18
Tour #33101, Tue 5:30 pm-11:00 pm, $18
 You’ll feel like you're
in Wyoming when you step into this model of the UP over
Sherman Hill from Cheyanne to Laramie. There are also
separate C&S and CB&Q routes to Denver. This
double deck HO layout features several scenes modeled
after specific spots on Sherman Hill. Eras are mixed
freely, so expect to see heavy steam moving iced reefer
blocks and wide cab Dash 8’s pulling low sulfur
western coal in action! A nine track staging yard with a
turntable, and the fully sceniced and operational town
of Greely, Colorado, are recent additions to this
nationally published layout. Photo by Brad Joseph.
Dee Joseph
Harriman-Hill Lines
Colorado
Eagle
Tour #42103, Wed 12:30 pm-5:15 pm, $18
Tour #43103, Wed, 6:00 pm-10:45 pm, $18
This system features big time transition era
railroading. PFM sound equipped roster includes famous
power from the UP and GN. Look for many name trains like
the Empire Builder, City of Portland, Oriental Limited
and several smaller trains. Witness beautiful mountains
and many bridges as you follow the UP-GN’s joint line
between Denver and Glacier National Park. Finally, go
into the adjacent room to the working CTC board.
Featured in Model Railroader And the NMRA
Bulletin.
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