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The Wabash Railroad
in Southern Ontario, circa 1951
ABOUT MY RAILROAD... Until the Autumn of 2008 I was building a layout based on the Canadian National Railway’s branch line hub in Palmerston, Ontario. Then, I had the opportunity to visit Bill Darnaby’s well-known HO scale model railroad, The Maumee Route. The experience had a profound effect on me and caused me to rethink everything I was attempting to do in my train room. After some careful thinking about options for the space, I settled upon modeling something that was in my own backyard. The Wabash Railroad had a significant operation across Southern Ontario that just begs to be modeled. The Buffalo Division was primarily a single-track bridge line established to reduce shipping times between Buffalo, New York, and Detroit, Michigan.I am building a double-decked layout featuring selected towns and signature scenes on the Wabash Railroad’s 240-mile Buffalo Division. My layout models the segment between Aylmer and Cayuga, Ontario. This 60-mile stretch of the Wabash includes a number of online customers typical of small-town Ontario, as well as a section of the mainline shared with the Canadian National Railways’s Hagersville Sub. Since I am modeling 1951 it will be neat to see the little CNR 2-6-0s sharing the rails with the paired F7A units used on the Wabash Red Ball freights. I’ll be posting regular updates and photos of my progress on this blog.Please visit often. |
THE LATEST BLOG POST...
Yes, I'm still here!March 20th, 2019  There are many customers out there who are waiting patiently(I hope) for me to fill their orders for kits and etched parts. Yarmouth Model Works has experienced unprecedented delays in restocking etchings and resin castings from my suppliers these last few months. No one is more unhappy about this than I, let me assure you. Nothing irks me more than having someones money and not being able to send them the items they have purchased. Please bear with me a little longer. I'm expecting a large etching order to arrive in a couple of days, and castings within a couple of weeks. And once we get all our back orders addressed look for more new cars this coming year. Like;  |