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The Wildcat Valley Railway
Building a Model Railroad
  • My Start in Model Railroading
  • The Layout
    • A Tour of the Layout
    • The WVR at night
  • Design
    • The Wildcat Valley RR Design Rules
    • Final Track Plan for the WVR
  • Construction
    • Benchwork is the Backbone of the Model Railroad
    • Construction of the Sawmill and Log Pond
    • Rebuilding the Tired Engine Facility
      • Scratch Built Railroad Turntable
      • A New Coaling Tower From out of the Past
    • The Hidden Staging Area
  • Systems
    • The DCC buss is the heart of the layout
    • Block Occupancy Detection on the Wildcat Valley
    • Turnout Control on the WVR
    • Layout Lighting
    • Structure Lighting
    • Using JMRI to Control Trains on the WVR
  • My AP Journey
  • Links
  • WVR Blog

The Layout

  • HO scale
  • Proto-freelanced
  • Era is 1920 thru 1939
  • Walk-in design
  • L-girder lower level, C-frame/open frame upper level
  • Single track 290′ main line with 4 passing sidings
  • 30″ minimum radius
  • Point to point or continuous operation
  • Code 83 Peco turnouts and flex track
  • #8 or #7 curved minimum turnout on the main
  • Digitrax DCC
  • JMRI/Loconet layout control

Take a tour of the Wildcat Valley Railway

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The WVR at night
Construction of the Sawmill and Log Pond
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