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Greater St. Louis Area
Model Railroad Layouts (C-J)
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Harold Dill, Santa Fe Western Division
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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 railfaning rather that prototype
operation. The 19’x41’ layout includes 165 feet 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.
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Paul Fries, Red Board Hobbies
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Located in the front window of Red Board Hobbies,
this HO railroad features colorful fall scenery with a small
town, lots of details, and modern motive power and rolling stock.
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Bill Giese, Rock Island Railroad
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Bill Giese's Des Moines Area Rock Island HO scale
model railroad features highly detailed city and industrial scenes filled with
cars, trucks and people. The railroad, set in the late 1960s to early 1970s, is a
walk-in design with a 76-foot single track main and 24-foot branch line using DC
control with two walk around throttles and two fixed cabs. The layout is
completely (and beautifully) sceniced, with a masonite backdrop of painted and
printed scenes and structures with building flats.
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Herb Gilden, Hi-Sioux Southern Railroad
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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.
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Ric Golding, Kaskaskia Valley Railway
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Chuck Graham, Cumbres & Toltec
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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.
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Greg Gray, San Miguel Southern Railroad
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Gary Gross, Franklin Pacific Railroad
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The Franklin Pacific Railroad (FP) was organized in 1876 in the town
of Franklin, Missouri. The original owners intended to extend the railroad
from St. Louis, Missouri through Franklin and the Missouri Ozarks to the
Pacific Ocean. The railroad was never able to achieve its objective because
of financial, political and competitive circumstances that occurred over
the years.
Today, June 1955, the railroad is a shortline operation, connecting the
town of Franklin with the towns of Taylorville, Gravelton, and Knobel and
interchanging with the Missouri Pacific (MP), Kansas City Southern (KCS),
and the St. Louis San Francisco (SLSF) railroads in a common yard at Franklin.
The MP and SLSF have passenger and freight trains coming east from St. Louis
and west from Kansas City and Springfield respectively, and the KCS has two
freight trains that travel between Springfield and Kansas City, all stopping
daily at Franklin. Passenger and freight traffic travels daily on the Franklin
Pacific from Franklin to the towns of Knobel, Gravelton, and Taylorville and
to industries in East Franklin, dropping off passengers and switching freight.
Sixteen regularly scheduled trains flow in and out of Franklin daily.
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John "Helix" Hardy, St. Jacques Northern / Great Northern
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This freelance 30’x33’ railroad connects Chicago
to Seattle. The 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.
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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.
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Jim & Sheila Heizer, Union Pacific Helix Division
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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.
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Gary Hoover, N&W
- Santa Fe - Missouri, Kansas & Quincy
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Gary Hoover's beautiful model railroads have appeared in
all of the major modeling magazines, "in Great Model Railroads", in Walthers
catalogs, and the Allen Keller "Great Model Railroads 34" video.
Gary's HO scale layout is once again being rebuilt,
this time as 1950s era Virginia coal
fields on the N&W.
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Fred Houska's completely sceniced N
scale model railroad is an around the walls with peninsula design
featuring DC control.
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Jay Janzen's multi-deck Santa Fe HO
model railroad has levels connected by an amazing helix and uses
Digitrax DCC control.
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Jeremy Jansen's model railroad features
photographic backdrops and detailed scenes.
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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 1950s. This is the 4th Megan’s
Ferry layout, with many of the buildings carried forward
with each improved version.
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The Pseudo-Soo Line (PSL) is set in north-central
Wisconsin in June of 1953. It represents the Third
Subdivision of the Gladstone Division of the "Soo". The HO
scale PSL is in an approximately 50’x16’ 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, Michigan (The "Soo") and
Minneapolis, Minnesota. The backdrop features over fifty
feet finished with stamp art by Prue Johnson. Designed for
operation, the layout's traffic features iron ore, local
forest and agricultural products, passenger, and a variety
of freight runs.
The modeled portion of the railroad runs from Rhinelander to
Cameron, in north-central Wisconsin. The three online yards
at Rhinelander, Ladysmith, and Weyerhauser are each operated
by a two-man crew. A branch line at Ladysmith represents the
Wisconsin Central routes to Superior, Wisconsin and
Bessemer, Michigan (iron mining). The layout uses Digitrax
DCC, card cards and waybills developed by Bob Johnson, and a
6:1 fast clock for operations. Dispatching is by verbal
authority. There are typically three one-man road crews
running trains in addition to the dispatcher and yard crews.
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Brad Joseph, MMR, Union Pacific
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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 8s 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.
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Dee Joseph, Harriman-Hill Lines
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Dee and his railroad are no longer with us,
lost in a home fire at the end of 2010. We'll be placing photos of Dee and
his railroad online as a tribute to his many contributions to St. Louis area model
railroading and railfans. His system featured big time transition era
railroading. The PFM sound equipped roster included famous power from the UP
and GN with many name trains like the Empire Builder, City of Portland,
Oriental Limited and several smaller trains. The beautiful mountains and
many bridges followed the UP-GN’s joint line between Denver and Glacier
National Park. Finally, the adjacent room featured
a working CTC board. Dee's
layout was featured in Model Railroader and the NMRA Bulletin.
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Jerry Jungers, Western Arkansas Railroad
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