1. Meydenbauer Convention Center
2. Bill Busacca
3. Glenn Farley
4. John Morrison
5. Dale Kreutzer
6. Ken Larson
7. Paul Scoles
8. Russ Segner
9. Dave Woodrell
10. Greg Wright

Some important notes on travel times and Seattle-area traffic. We do have rush hour traffic, so plan your trips accordingly. Most routes have car-pool lanes, which helps. You'll need at least two people for most car-pool lanes, but 520 across Lake Washington requires 3 for the car-pool lanes, and the car-pool lanes are only west-bound. Plan on an extra 1/2 to 1 hour of travel time during rush hour for the farther layouts.

The layout is constructed in an L-shaped garage/office structure, with the outside legs 36 feet in length, and the inside legs 20 feet in length.

The model of the West Side Lumber Company begins at the mill site in Tuolumne. All prototype narrow gauge track and structures are included in this portion of the layout, albeit in a greatly compressed form. From the mill site the railroad makes a 36-foot run to River Bridge. The scenery in this section is complete and consists of a series of cuts and fills to represent the Tuolumne River Gorge and includes models of the distinctive California Black Oak and Manzanita. A model of the 326-foot bridge across the North Fork of the Tuolumne River is also complete.

The Deadwood section of the layout was recently rebuilt to provide a more prototypical layout that includes two sidings and a wye. From Deadwood, the railroad continues to Camp 24 which consists of a single siding and a balloon track. The track continues into the woods at the Crumbine wye. From Crumbine the main line passes through Reynolds Creek Camp, crosses a deep fill and arrives at Fleming. The main line then descends a 3% grade to Camp 45. The scenery for the section of the layout between Crumbine and Camp 45 is complete and consists of an old-growth forest of Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine, and Incense Cedar. The primary feature at Camp 45 is the loading scene to represent the reload from truck to rail using a steam hoist. All scenery and models are complete for the Camp 45 scene.

Locomotives and Rolling Stock: The 1950 West Side Lumber Company locomotive roster is represented by PSC engines equipped with Tsunami sound decoders. The equipment roster consists of 40 skeleton log cars and 7 caboose models. Non-revenue cars include diesel, bunker oil and gasoline tank cars; as well as camp supply reefers, wood block cars, assorted flat cars and moving cars.

The RGS Second District depicts the southern half of the RGS between West Durango and Dolores, Colorado in the 1920’s.  Why this area and era? The freight traffic was diverse; cattle, crops, lumber, coal and ore. Branch lines included logging, coal and gold mines.  The scenery, high passes, and spectacular mountains sealed the deal.

The layout is in a finished room 42 feet long and 12 to 16 feet wide with all hard-shell, and track complete. Dolores, Mancos, and Hesperus are the major towns along the 191 foot, hand laid Code 55, mainline track with branches to Haycamp Mesa and May Day. All spurs and branches are Code 40. The town of Hesperus is complete and 75 feet of the layout’s 105 foot photo backdrop is in place.

Modeled after the Gilpin Gold Tram, the layout fills a 15’ x 22’ room and overflow into other spaces in3/8n20. (1:32 scale with a 20 inch track gauge). This fully scenic pike has appeared in the NG & SL Gazette. Locomotives are sound equipped and powered by Digitrax. Layout room is wheelchair accessible all though tracks are 41” to 60” up from the floor in 1/3 of a three car garage.

The PBR&N occupies nearly all of my 22’ x 46’ basement, and features a 250’ point tot point mainline, several yards, and finished scenery. The setting is coastal northern California in 1895, with the railroad serving as the primary transportation system for the region.

The layout has been featured in the Gazette many times over the past 10-12 years, as well as in RMC, Sn3 Modeler, and other publications. Control is by NCE wireless DCC, and all locos are equipped with Tsunami sound decodes. Visitors are invited to operate the trains as much as they wish. Photography is also permitted.

Glenn Farley is building one of our newest layouts in On3.  He’s featuring the Rio Grande in 1938 as it ran from Gunnison, Colorado to Cimarron through the Black Canyon.  Glenn has worked closely with Dale Kreutzer on photo backdrops of the real places where his railroad is set.  Yes, this is a scale model of all 11 stalls of the Gunnison roundhouse.  Glenn’s layout features the structures and locomotives that were found in Gunnison that year.

Sn3 Layout of the Middle 1/3 of the Rio Grande Southern , with the town of Dolores and the keystone. The town is complete with all scenery and backdrop, and the complete scene at Stoner is finished. By late summer, the bench work and track should be completed from Dolores to the siding at Muldoon. Eventually the layout will include the yard at Rico and continue through the Gallagher trestles. The locomotives are DCC equipped.

Our layouts are outside as well as inside.  John Morrison has created a huge narrow gauge garden railway. Many of the locomotives he has scratch-built.

My railroad is a freelanced logging and mining branch line set in western Washington in the 1930’s. It is an imaginary branch of the DRGW, which interchanges with the DRGW system at China Creek. It is 3 foot narrow gauge with operation focusing on switching at mills and mines.

The track plan is a point to point around the perimeter of the room, which is 19’ by 16’. Minimum radius is 28 inches except for one switchback to a mine area. Control is walk around with Lenz DCC and Tsunami sound. Maximum grades are 4.25%.

Track work, except for a staging yard, is complete and includes two wyes and a new turntable. Scenery is well along with all ground cover completed. Several structures are started with one large structure nearing completion.

Operation includes a PBL Heisler, new PBL Shays #5 and #6, C-18 #319 and C-17 # 302 with Tsunamis.

Set in the late 1930’s/ early 1940’s timeframe, the railroad depicts the RGS route from Ridgeway, CO to Rico, CO, serving Placerville, Ophir and Lizard Head. The layout is approximately 95% complete, with a newly added continuous running connection and the recently completed Pro Patria Mill in Rico. Operational control is, provided by Lenz DCC and motive power consists of a large stable of PBL and modified PMF locomotives.

This is a rare opportunity to visit Sam Furukawa's Sn3 layout, the Sam Juan Central. It is based on scenes of the Rio Grande Southern in its final years and features many detailed locomotives and plenty of rolling stock. It's controlled by three P-B-L sound systems, and features cameras mounted around the layout with run-bys shown on several monitors throughout the house.

Barry and Janice Dupler's 17x25 HO/HOn3 layout features an independent logging line and narrow gauge service to numerous mines and mills in the surrounding mountains.

The railroad features mining, sawmill operations, small cities, waterfront piers, a yard and turntable, passenger service and various siding industries in this themed steam era set in the late 1930’s. His stunning detailed background, overhead lighting, Shinohara code 70 track over a Vinylbed base and a Lenz Digital Plus DCC and sound decoders are all installed. About 70% of the scenery is completed. 

Paul Scoles photographed JJ’s layout and wrote a story published in the Jan/Feb 2003 issue of the GAZETTE. For more details, visit www.jtwice.com and to click on the icon for the Puget Sound Iron Goat Railway in the upper right hand corner of his home page.