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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...
Joe Cocker said it best!April 25th, 2018 With a little help from my friends!  Trevor was here today. We spent a couple of hours laying out the track alignment for Clovis. It's amazing how fast it can go when you have someone to bounce ideas off of as we go. We also took the time to sort out some of the structure locations and some options for modeling them. Thanks so much for the time Trevor. Now I can glue down turnout ties and and the fun stuff that follows. We're both feeling real good about where this is going. |