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The West Virginia & Kentucky Narrow Gauge is a 7/8 scale (or 1:13.7 ifin ya prefer) railline that I have installed 3/4 of the way around my house. While I have been involved in Outdoor Large Scale Railroading for about 9 years now, I've only been into 7/8 scale for about four. This is predominately a scratch builders scale, cause there is little or nothing available in the way of commercial products. The trains run on 45 mm gauge track the same as other large scales.
While practitioners of this scale are primarily industrial or estate lines, some folks are making a valid attempt at modeling Maine Two Footers and succeeding admirably I might add. Me personally, I tend to be out on a tangent doing my own little thing. I prefer not to acknowledge the gauge at all, just considering it "narrow."
While a lot of Outdoor RRs are built as displays for a collection of railroad
equipment, the WCNG is built for operations in a prototypical manner.
That means basically, its a point to point layout with no loops.
Trains run from Point A to Point B for a reason with stops to service
industries along the way. This might be a good point to interject
that all rolling stock is scratch built on Bachmann metal wheelsets.
All locomtoves are built pretty much from the mechanisms up too, and all
are equipped with battery R/C. No track power here, basically cause
all the track is handlaid code 250 Aluminum rail spiked to cedar ties!
Below is a digram of how the layout looks currently.
The premise for the line is that it was constructed as a private industrial line that was later incoporated as a common carrier. At some point, the property was purchsed by the conglomerate Western Consolidated Industries and for a while ran as the Western Consolidated Narrow Gauge. After this existance it was decided by Western Consolidated management to merge the narrow gauge line with its standard gauge connection, the West Virgina & Kentucky RR, thereby becoming the West Virgina & Kentucky Narrow Gauge. The Year is 1943, theres a war on, and the railroad is an important part of the War Effort.
