Jay, a great admirer of Pelle Søeberg, wanted to reproduce Pelle's Union Pacific Daneburg Subdivision. His room was a little different in shape, so I rearranged mainline and staging to create this version.
Tom had no particular prototype in mind for his "retirement railroad," (thus the tongue-in-cheek name) but wanted a double track-main and the ability to see trains "cross over one another" along with logging and coal industries. I designed a SP-flavored pike with a do...
A square 10'3" on a side is not a lot of room for HO, even when a closet can be de-doored and added to the available space. We squeezed a lot of switching and operational possibilities in by creating "around the walls" staging on a disguised twice-around scheme. An e...
Robin's huge railroad fills two rooms and surrounds a uniquely-shaped utility area with staging tracks. It includes a representation of the naval shipyard on Mare Island north of Oakland, CA.
The former Southern Pacific crossing of the Cascade mountains is one of the most famous stretches of mountain railroad in the world. This is one of two versions I designed; the other was an HO version for John Caffarelli.
This elaborate design fits a version of the Southern Pacific Cascades crossing into a relatively small room by using up to three levels. See also the N scale version done for Craig Snyder.