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Greater St. Louis Area
Model Railroad Layouts (A-B)
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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.
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This freelance HO layout is set in the midwest and
has been under development for over twenty 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.
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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.
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Noel Baker, Santa Fe La Junta Sub
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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 1930s to the early 1950s
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.
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Dave Bartz, Santa Fe
Trinity Division
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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 50s era empire. The double track main is protected
by operating 3-color signals, while operating dwarf
signals protect some 30 turnouts.
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This freelance 30’x18’ HO layout is set
in Missouri 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.
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Big Bend Railroad Club, Ozark & Springfield
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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.
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Scott Bimson, Alton and Southern
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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.
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Bob's N scale completely sceniced
modern era BNSF in St. Louis layout features a single track mainline
loop with Digitrax DCC control. The layout is located in the lower
level of a split foyer home and includes the 2 car garage. Bob has
monthly operating sessions using a document prepared in
Microsoft Word
and colored adhesive dots.
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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.
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Phil Bonzon, Buffalo Creek and Gauley
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Phil is a long-time B&O fan and recently became interested in the BC&G
through Deane Mellander's and Bob Kaplan's book "B&O Steam Finale Volume 1".
The original thought was that the BC&G would be an ideal short-line to
model with the B&O. As time passed, the BC&G and ERC&L became the more
dominant roads on the layout.
Through the use of the Intenet and topographical maps Phil developed an
HO layout plan that is 20'7"x15'2". The time period is the late 1950s.
Steam and diesels were both in use on the B&O. The layout is currently under
construction, 300 feet of track has arrived and 50 of the 65 turnouts have
arrived (Shinohara turnouts are a little hard to obtain). The BC&G will
include Dundon (station, shops, company houses and store), Avoca wye, Sand Fork,
Cressmont (dairy), Swandale (sawmill, engine house, company store and houses)
and Widen (mine, tipple, power house, Widen bank, company store & houses).
The ERC&L will join the BC&G at the Avoca wye and will include the Lilly Fork.
The vertical separation between the two railroads will vary from 4" were they
cross to 7" at Swandale and 8" at Widen. At Widen the ERC&L track will be at
eye level.
Phil's goal is to capture the character and surroundings of the ERC&L and
BC&G and bring them back alive through my layout. The layout will be a
never-ending project and hopefully, a constantly improving one.
Layout website.
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This beautiful HO layout represents a fictitious
small branchline in the late 1940s near Thurmond,
West Virginia, 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.
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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 Utah Belt has been featured in many
issues of both Model Railroader and Railroad
Model Craftsman.
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CB&Q and AT&SF in Northern Colorado is the emphasis
on this large 35'x40' HO railroad. 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 1,000 feet 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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