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had enough of them to circle his entire basement, forming the beginning of his railroad empire. “In 1998,” Jim said, “I abandoned my cobbled-together modular layout and designed a proper model railroad like those I had always read about.” His inspiration came from a friend, Roy Cutler, who had built a huge base- ment empire designed for operation. Jim had earlier joined Roy’s operating


crew, leading him to eventually design his own operation-oriented model rail- road.


The double deck layout, with an


overall footprint of 30′-0″×46′-6″, de- picts the freelance but prototype-based Mud Bay & Southern Railway and the Burlington Northern in the early 1970’s. The BN portrays the branch from Centralia to Shelton, Washington, and the BN and MB&S, with nearly


The Mud Bay & Southern No. 9 (opposite) sits atop the turntable at Rochester before heading up the Lincoln Creek local.


In the


background is the Mud Bay Lumber Co.’s Rochester Mill. A rail barge (above) has arrived at Mud Bay and is being unloaded. The


Port of Mud Bay is the industrial center on the MB&S, where pas- sengers are waiting patiently (below) at the Mud Bay station for the MudBay Flier, an RDC that runs several time a day. Across the tracks some mainline power awaits a new assignment.


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