• Scale: HO – 40’ x 42’
• DCC
• Percent Completed:
  • Electrical 95
  • Track 98
  • Scenery 90
• Entry Point: From parking lot behind building
• Handicap Accessible: Yes

The HO model railroad represents a portion of the CNO&TP – Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific – 2nd Division known as the “Rathole” due to its steep grades and numerous tunnels. The time period is 1950 to 1965 and is in a 40’ x 42’ area with wide aisles to accommodate handclapped. Trains run North and South from Danville, KY to Harriman, TN covering over 141 miles with seven towns with many industries along the line. Trains are staged in the Danville and the Oakdale yards. The layout has over 1,110 feet of track with 146 turnouts and two mainlines which are fully signaled. Switching opportunities include a cement plant, coal mine, lumber mill, wharf, two breweries, local warehouses and many other businesses. Maintenance is done in the Danville and Oakdale maintenance shops. The railroad is on one level.

• Scale: HO – 31.5” x 84’
• DCC
• Percent Completed:
  • Electrical 100
  • Track 90
  • Scenery 45
• Entry Point: Door (stairs & 1 dog)
• Handicap Accessible: No

The time frame modeled is from 1964 to 1980 in an area that resembles Piedmont and Southwest Virginia into Southern West Virginia. While the railroad operates around 500 locomotives and many cabooses showing an interest in many railroads, the primary railroads modeled are the Norfolk and Western Ry and Southern Ry. The railroad physically has approximately 145’ of double track main line and 2 single track branch lines at 45’ and 49’. For classification and building trains the railroad’s primary yard is 27’ x 3’ wide double-ended . It is a flat switching yard with 13 yard tracks with a lead on one end. The yard also has car shops and diesel shops with a large diesel service facility. The major industries served by the railroad there are coal mines, wood chip and pulpwood yards, coal fired power plants, paper mills, and coke ovens. There are a number smaller businesses and industries that are served as well. With all that said, coal is King!

• Scale: S – 25’ x 30’
• DCC
• Percent Completed:
  • Electrical 100
  • Track 100
  • Scenery 100
• Entry Point: From patio, accessed through gate on left side of house.
• Handicap Accessible: No (has stairs)

The C&O Alleghany Subdivision is a S scale prototype based layout representing the C&O mainline from Covington, VA to White Sulfur Springs, WV. This double tracked layout includes a yard at Covington, VA with stops at Roscevert, WV and Alleghany, VA. Highly detailed, the layout has many structures that have been scratch built or kit bashed to represent actual structures found on the prototype. While it is a continuous run layout, it has hosted operating sessions using a point to point configuration. This layout has been featured in Model Railroader and S Scale magazines.

• Scale: HO – 24’ x 30’
• DC & DCC
• Percent Completed:
  • Electrical 90
  • Track 100
  • Scenery 90
• Entry Point: Direct entry from driveway
• Handicap Accessible: Yes

The layout is a compressed three (3) island, double deck “snapshot” of the 1950’s area around Cincinnati, OH. In this era, Cincinnati was a connecting point for seven (7) major railroads with both passenger and freight serving all points N, S, E, & W. Until a few years ago the city of Cincinnati owned trackage rights into the Chattanooga famous Choo-Choo making the Queen City & Scenic City an interesting pair! Cincinnati is also a city of seven (7) hills making hilly scenery an obvious choice.