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A one town layout?
ome time ago, it turns out that it was way back in April of 2010, I posed a thesis about building a
one-industry layout. (I didn’t think it was so long ago. Surprise.) I still think the idea has merit. Of course, if you get one model railroader in a room alone you will have at least three different opinions, so that has to be taken into account. So, how about a one-town layout? This is rather opposite of traditional
model railroad planning, and it would be heresy to those who established the scale model railroad hobby as we know it from the 1930’s and the immediate post-war decades. They had to have “all of it,” and that philosophy was passed down from generation to gener- ation, from club to club, from four-by- eight to four-by-eight. A real layout must have “The Yard,” a full-blown en- gine terminal with the mainline per-
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fectly concentric with the turntable and rear wall of the roundhouse as it wraps around it, mountains and tun- nels (ya’ gotta have mountains or where would you put the Upper Level?) and everything but the kitchen sink. Well, that too. This is the “& Pacific” school of layout design, inspired by the dreams and schemes of the twelve-inch to the foot empire buiders and ab- sorbed by the scale modeler empire builders in layout rooms across the land. I don’t think it will ever com- pletely go away, either. Given what our ancestors and even
some of us saw down by the tracks, this is completely understandable. There was a lot there, and railroading often involved large and, to modelers, inter- esting facilities. Even after steam was gone, for years diesels lived in the shadows of old roundhouses and half- empty Union Stations, and they hauled familiar-looking freight cars or pulled glamorous streamliners and vi- sually-comfortable heavyweights and RPO’s on milk trains and locals. An ex- tra generation had a chance to sample and absorb the days of thick Official Guides, an infrastructure that was more out of its time every January when a new calendar replaced the old one, and, significantly, how much of the nation’s business was done locally and by rail. Looking back, it is amaz- ing how long the vestiges of traditional railroading lasted. What’s not there to inspire modeling? The question is how to model it. Just because we inherited “a way” does not mean it has to be followed any more than that it has to be rejected. The problem comes when we try to put the “Kitchen Sink & Pacific” into our layout rooms. Everything does not fit. It never did, or at least not well or convincingly.
Soo Line historian and modeler David Leider chose to research and model a single town, Waupaca, Wisconsin, as it was in the 1950’s. Both the research and HO scale modeling have proven to be enjoyable parts of the hobby—and the results speak for themselves.
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