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Practitioners

This page updated April 14, 2002

Arthur Armstrong

Art’s proposed layout is along the wall of what could be called his family room. It represents the storage or staging tracks for the layout. Most of the track in this room will be commercially made. Art's biggest push in the Proto:64 direction has been the completion of the Southern Pacific CA-1 caboose shown here. Click on the photo to see more about it.

Lawrence Boul

Lawrence is modeling the historic location of Brunner on the South Island of New Zealand’s West Coast. The gauge is 3'6" and the trackage is handlaid in code 80 to 16.5 mm. At present wheels are RP25-110 but experiments have shown that scale wheels are workable. These are currently being made at a local machine shop, and will be progressively installed. The layout is set in the late ’30s and features kit and scratchbuilt stock.

Bob Fann

Bob has finally gotten a real “railroad room” (13' x 23' minus a 3' x 16' aisle along one side) and will soon begin construction of a layout based on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad operations in the “Bone Valley” phosphate mining and citrus region of central Florida. The layout will feature code 70 and 83 track and obsessive attention to detail. Bob plans to start with a late ’50s setting, using currently available kits and RTR equipment. Later, he hopes to add interchangeable scenic elements to backdate the layout to the ’20s, with scratchbuilt rolling stock carried over from predecessor roads such as the Florida Central and Peninsular.

Tom Lennon

Tom is starting construction of the Duluth and Northeastern, a takeoff of the prototype D&ME located in Minnesota. The railroad will be basically an around the room layout occupying a 12' x 30' portion of the basement. Though Tom’s interest is mainly in the pre-diesel era (say pre-1930’s), he concedes to the availability of newer commercial models and fudges a lot on that end. He says he will likely move his era up into the late ’50’s to accommodate one of the new S Helper Service SW9s.

Richard Snook

Richard’s “Siskiyou-Cadillac Country” is a look at the Southern Pacific in the Northern California, Southern Oregon area in the early to mid 90’s, after CORP has taken over and up to then. Richard has two major challenges ahead, finding enough modern Espee motive power in S scale and doing it from Australia. We'll post photos of Richard’s progress on his modular layout in the future.

Keith Thompson

Your web author is on his second go-round in S scale. This time he's taking the Proto approach that's now possible thanks to Code 88 wheelsets from Des Plaines Hobbies and NorthWest Short Line. Keith's planning the freelanced East Texas Belt in the late 1960’s, but may change to SP and SSW. The fictitious ETB runs from Houston to St. Louis with a branch line to Dallas. Keith picked S scale for his most recent scale change because he already had a large collection of 1:64 die-cast vehicles and details of the larger size are more “viewer friendly.”

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