Ted Stephens
Ohio & Little Kanawha Railroad
Description
The Ohio & Little Kanawha Railroad is a freelance 1950s West Virginia coal hauling railroad. It takes you on a journey through the rolling hills of West Virginia, through small towns and big cities. This HO scale railroad features 250 feet of mostly hand laid single and double track mainline. All turnouts and track are scratch built using Fast Tracks assembly fixtures. Operations are designed around the layout’s two yards, four towns and two large and one small coal mine. Both local switching jobs and long mainline runs characterize the operations scheme. The layout features many scratch built and contest winning craftsman structures. Scenery is almost 100% complete. The layout is built in a 750 square foot room of an industrial building. The main layout room is 50 x 15 with a branch in an adjacent room. Construction is single level. With a Yard Master and 4 crews, a typical ops session lasts about 4 hours. Operation and Control: NCE-DCC with wireless throttles Car forwarding by car cards and waybills Dispatching via pseudo-CTC with trackside telephones Manual uncoupling using picks All mainline engines are equipped with sound decoders
Scale: HO
Era: 1940-1960
Approximate Size: 750 Sq. Ft.
Percent Complete Benchwork-100% Trackwork-100% Scenery-100% Signaling -80%
Location: Mountain View
Access: No Access Issues
Parking: Parking is available on the property (50-100 foot walk)
