14.11.2007

Carsten Möller's modelrailroad pages

Links to sites by members of the LDSIG

I am not only a member (and webmaster) of the FREMO, but joined the NMRA and their Layout Design Special Interest Group (LDSIG) as well.

This page contains links to sites maintained by members of the LDSIG.

Club Layouts

• Waterloo Region Model Railway Club
  CP Sudbury Division in the 70s

• The Model Railroad Club, Inc. Union N.J.

• The Silicon Valley Lines is an HO model railroad club located in San Jose, California

Private Layouts

• Steven Haworth's Rio Grande Southern RR as it might've become had it lasted beyond 1952.

• Peter White's Santa Fe Industrial Railroad and some ideas for industrial switching layouts

• Douglas Harding's Iowa Central Railroad

• Jeff Shearier's The Augsburg & Concord Railroad Company

• Dave and Linda Sand's Model Railroad Stuff including the "Cedar River Terminal"

• Rick Jones's Lake Erie & Oregon Railroad is in the preliminary design stages. The room has been finished and is awaiting a layout design to begin construction.

• Dave Husman's Wilmington and Northern Branch of the Reading Lines. Read about the History of the both the W&N full size and the HO scale version

• Bill Gaver's Balboa Granada & Eastern Railroad (BG&E)

• Don Woodwell's NC Lines & Traction, Ltd. - an overview and photos.
  NC Lines & Traction was incorporated 15 years ago when its owners purchased a small, bankrupt railroad making it North Carolina's 22nd short line railroad.
  This fictional, 3-rail O-scale, transition-era short line serves several local industries in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and transfers goods to the mainline of the Southern Railway.

• Rich Weyand's Pocahontas Division, an N scale layout of the Norfolk & Western's most famous division in 1958.

• Roger T's Great Eastern replaces the CPR and some CNR lines in southern Quebec. The model represents a cluster of branch lines to the south of Montreal that connect with the D&H, CV, B&M and NYC

• Mike Dodd's HO scale Virginian Railway set in 1954. Operations-oriented design with no scenery yet. Operates using TT&TO procedures. Web site has photos and descriptions of the railroad, plus information and samples of most of the paperwork we use during an operating session.

• Steve McMullin's HO scale Carleton Railroad -a double-deck 60's era layout

• Mike Davison's Northern Pacific Grays Harbor Branch is an HO scale layout that combines prototype and freelance elements to represent this region and its timber industries.

• Cliff Power's MA&G (better known as "The Magnolia Route"

• The web site of the past present and future versions of the Bear Creek & South Jackson railroad. The old BC&SJ is gone but the new BC&SJ is a multi-level HO what-if design of track running from central Oregon east over Santiam Pass in the Cascades following the route originally surveyed for the Corvalis & Eastern - by Charlie Comstock

• The UCW - Utah Colorado Western by Lee Nicholas

• Steve's Layout based on the Western Pacific RR with some historical content

• The Chicago, South Shore, and South Bend Railroad and my O Scale version of it. by Jay Beckham

• The Teton Short Line by Wayne Roderick

• The Adirondack Line by Malcolm Alberry

• Roy Hoffman's PENN WESTERN is a free-lanced layout modelling the PRR Philadelphia Region in 1:64 scale.

• Bob Bartizek's Pennsylvania & Western RR is a fictional subsidiary of the PRR operating in southern Pennsylvania in 1953. It is a large layout designed for operation, built in 3-rail O scale. Take a look, you may never have seen 3-rail like this.

• The Pakesley Mill & Timber Co. in On3 by Barry Cott

• Bill Wright's Green Bay Southern Railroad

• David Mikulec's DT&I Modelers Page

• Layout design parameters and track plan of the HO scale DIXON, JEROME & HANCOCK RAILWAY as being built in Annapolis, MD, USA by Douglas Hughes.
  The layout is to depict scenes and traffic on the Frisco's Lebanon Subdivision in the mid 1960's era. It's a linear walk around being built to feature operating sessions.

• Bruce Faulkner's fictitious CSX Shenandoah Division in N-Scale represents the late 1980s/early 1990s era of what was once the Carolina, Shenandoah and Ohio railway, a bridge and coal route.

• Wolfgang Dudler's Westport Terminal RR

• Craig Bisgeier's Housatonic Railroad Home Page - information and diagrams on my HO scale 1892 layout in building stages - also much layout design and operations information.

• The SIERRA WESTERN & SANTA FE RR is a large HO scale, multi deck layout depicting a free-lanced Santa Fe route competing with the Southern Pacific in Northern California. The area modeled begins at Chico, CA. and will head north to McCloud, CA. It is set in the early 1970's. The layout, started in August 1994, has been designed for operations. All track will be hand laid, a Digital Command Control (DCC) system has been installed, full signaling is planned, and it will be dispatcher controlled using a real CTC machine - the last one built for the Santa Fe. (Rick Fortin)

• Website for HO scale model railroad based on the Pacific Electric's Southern District (an electrified "interurban" railway) line from downtown Los Angeles to the harbor at San Pedro in the early 1950s. Includes layout plans, prototype track diagrams, and photos of prototype structures and locations. Site maintained by: Tom Wetzel

• Dave Denny's EJ&E web site with pictures from John DePauw's layout and equipment.

• The B&M / MeC Mountain Division A double-deck track plan based on the Maine Central line through the White Mountains of New Hampshire including Crawford Notch.
  The site includes prototype information and alternate design suggestions from members of the Layout Design SIG.
  The site is maintained by SIG member Dick Lord of Durham, New Hampshire.

• Modeling the Monon, Ash Grove to Gosport, 1949 Tim Walter - Indianapolis, IN

• Dave Husman's Wilmington and Northern Branch of the Reading Lines. Read about the History of the both the W&N full size and the HO scale version

• Joe Fugate's Siskiyou Line - This site details my HO scale Siskiyou Line railroad, which models the SP in southern Oregon in the 1980s. The site discusses the history of the prototype, the design and operation of the model layout, and includes photos of both the model and the protoype.

• The SP Shasta Route is a John Armstrong designed, HO layout being constructed in a 22'x 52' space (including crew lounge). The mushroom design, which will include over 300' of mainline, depicts the Black Butte Subdivision of the Shasta Division from Redding, CA to Klamath Falls, OR in early 1952. Construction began on September 14, 2002, the day after our move in to our new home. Thus far, approximately 100' of benchwork, and mainline, sidings and yard tracks have been installed. (Otis McGee)

• The Jersey Western Railroad Co. Western is a free-lanced rail line that allows a convenient method for the interchange of traffic between the SP, on their Tucumcari Line, and the SF mainline that crosses New Mexico (Jim Mansfield)

• Larry Stillwagon's Southwestern Pennsylvania (SWPA) model railroad is an N-scale layout based on the CSX and the Southwest Pennsylvania Shortline Railroads as they currently operate around my hometown of Connellsville, PA. Construction of the model has recently started.
  
• Larry Stillwagon's Freight Car photos

Historic Societies and information about fallen flags

• Modeling the Norfolk & Western Ry. A look at the N&W in the late 1960s. This is a new site, and is under construction. It will contain both prototype information and N scale modeling information, as well as specific layout information. Maintained by Simon Leigh.

• Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway Historical Society
  The Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway (TH&B) existed from 1892 through 1987 as a separate railway serving the Hamilton, Ontario area. It joined the lines of its corporate parents, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the New York Central system.
  Site owned and maintained by Nicholas Russon

• The Northern Pacific Grays Harbor Branch This site provides information about the early years of the Northern Pacific's Grays Harbor branch. The history of the line, from 1880 to 1910 is covered. Photos, maps and diagrams are included.

• A Railfan's Guide to the Puget Sound and Pacific Railroad The Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad was formed in in August of 1997 from the former Grays Harbor branch of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. The shortline's locomotives are pictured and work is under way to provide images of freight cars used on the line.

• Yosemite Valley RR by Jack Burgess. The site includes prototype information about the Yosemite Valley Railroad, equipment and buildings still in existence, following the abandoned right of way, and some modeling information.

• The Pennsylvania Railroad Page This page contains some pictures and in particular focuses on PRR electric locomotives. Sub pages include such items as a survey of electric locomotives in the US, the complete PRR P5 roster, and a guided tour of the Columbia and Port Deposit Branch.

• Jim Lancaster's "Train Page" contains prototype photos of western U.S. railroads from the 1950s, 60s and 70s with an emphasis on the Southern Pacific. Jim is also building a moderate size HO scale model railroad with photos on the web page. The HO scale Montgomery and San Joaquin railroad has been designed to depict a 1950 to 1960 era, single track subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad across California's Coast range, the San Joaquin Valley, and the Sierra Nevada Mountains from San Jose to south central Nevada.

Commercial Sites

• Accurail H0-scale cars

• SHENANDOAH SOFTWARE SITE - Creators of the MiTrains Inventory and Waybills programs. MiTrains is a system for keeping track of all railroad items, not just rolling stock. Includes databases of all Micro-Trains(TM) cars in N Scale and Accurail cars in HO. Attach JPG/GIF pictures (viewer included) to items and ability to print Waybill car envelopes with pictures. The Waybills program prints the four cycle waybills popularized by Don McFall of Old Line Graphics. Includes a database of 6,000+ US prototype industries.

• K.I.S.S. Method Inc. - we make a product called Track Planning Tools for layout design. Even John Armstrong had a hand in the development of our product.
  See article in LDJ-27

• Model Rail Services - Layout Design and Operations expertise for hobbyists, publishers, and organizations operated by Byron Henderson

all other sites

• Railways in the Niagara Region by Dan Learn
• John Balogh's Train Page Links to John Balogh's favorite Model Railroad sites and railroad-related locations in central Pennsylvania, USA.
• Bruce Metcalf's Railroad Pages contain several articles he has written about various aspects of prototype and model railroading, along with his directory of Colorado Consolidations (under construction).

• The LDSIG Primer - FAQ about modelrailroading - and more from room preparation to operation on the finished layout.

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