Click on the links to see images of our layout. (See if you can find the "Master of Suspense".) The backgrounds have been altered for your visual pleasure. We wish our backgrounds looked this good... Some day! 

Among those buildings that we have built so far are:

• the Borden's Creamery 
• the original ND&C passenger station at its position in the era we model 
• the NY&NE passenger station built when it arrived from Connecticut
• the freight house at the junction 
• one of the track-side hotels
• one of the engine houses that serviced helper engines
• and a track car shed.

     In addition to the Hopewell Junction corner section , the club owns the other corner modules. One is a scratch-built portrayal of the coal loading facility that was East of the yards (another view). Another is an example of how building foam can be used to make convincing rock face as the original NY&NE carved a hairpin turn in a cut at the north end of Stormville Mountain. The other corner represents a rural farm and orchard scene that typified the economy of the areas through which the Dutchess County railroads ran.

     The club also owns a module that demonstrates the construction of a module that we use when we put on clinics at shows. One 2' piece has a Plexiglas top so the wiring can be seen while the other, a 4' construction module, ranges from bare wood on one end to the other end that has all the scenery completed.

     Our most recent project has been the addition of a fiddle yard so that we can more easily make up and break down the ultra-long trains that we normally run at shows. 

Individual club members also have contributed privately owned modules.
     A 12' long yard represents the freight yards that could be found to the east of the actual junction at Hopewell. This working yard is compressed based on a track-plan map that we were able to purchase. 

     A 4' module represents the village of Stormville as it was in 1935. The creator of that module took photographs and measurements of the buildings that still exist and used period photographs and interviews to build the building exactly as they appeared, including color, at that time.

     One of our members overcame his fear of heights and braved his way onto the bridge at Towners NY that crosses over the still existent Harlem Line. The measurements and photographs that he was able to gather were the basis for a module of the Towners area including the Towners Bridge. Notice the detail that he built into the bridge. 

     Fully lighted buildings highlight another individual's module. This module portrays a village set in the 1950s and has stores and other businesses whose interiors are highly detailed with goods on the shelves, bottles on the bar rack, a deli case complete with cold cuts in the general store, and scratch-built power lawn mowers. another view