Layout Name: Milwaukee Road Lynden Spur

City: Fort Worth

Scale: HO

Size: 2' X 19'

Jobs: The railroad operates just as the prototype did--one train comes into town from the mainline connection, switches the cars, and returns. A two-person crew, engineer and conductor, team up to work the job.

Car Forwarding: Switch Lists

Operations: The Lynden job is a side-trip for the regular Bellingham-Sumas round trip to deliver interchange to the Canadian border, beginning for the operating crew at Hampton, represented by the staging yard, where the crew is given a switch list; it's up to them to dig cars cars out of the staging and it is to their benefit to block their train in industry order, as the track arrangement and "on hand" cars present in Lynden can make operations congested.

Description:

My railroad depicts a little tiny part of the great big Milwaukee Road, during its last weeks in operation in the Pacific Northwest,  which I call the Lynden Spur, Milwaukee Road Washington Division, circa 1976-80.

It is an HO scale shelf railroad, approximately 2' X 19' with a small staging yard. Faithful in track plan to the prototype, and about 70% in scale size to the prototype, the railroad contains only six turnouts--as the prototype did. Nine customers are served, and there's two team tracks as well. Primary traffic is feed and fertilizer inbound, and frozen fruit (strawberries and raspberries) and powdered milk outbound.


Website:
Milwaukee Road's Lynden Spur in HO Scale

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