This is a view of Kalin Ice & Coal looking towards the harbor. The prototype for this coal loading facility was located in the Union Pacific yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The small office building in the back- ground was scratchbuilt by Jeff Boock.


wood or cast plaster kits. The multi- story brick buildings in the town of Rock Harbor are styrene shells covered with Holgate & Reynolds brick materi- al and Grandt Line doors and win- dows. The clapboard siding on several buildings is represented by individual, pre-painted and weathered boards ap- plied over commercial, milled, clap- board siding, which sets the spacing.


The gang


A lot of very talented modelers have contributed to the construction of the layout. They belong to a round-robin group called the Friday Night Boomers.


Every five or six weeks they rotate over to the Loon Lake Railway & Navigation Company and ply their trade. Artists Greg Gray and Dave Logsdon, model builders Steve Anderson, Jeff Boock, John Kalin, Herb Koenig, Bob Lenz, Randy Meyer,


Rich Owings, and


Richard Rands, and Brian Post and Herb riding herd on the electrons, I owe them all a debt of gratitude. It is their project as much as it is mine.


A short section of standard gauge track with a standard gauge car (left) allows the author to illustrate the gauge/scale relation- ship to visitors who are unfamiliar with it. Note the sawmill under construction in the background. An overall view of the layout room (below) shows the author running a train through Rock Harbor. The unfinished town of Cascade is in the left foreground.


RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN


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