The Weathering Depot

Today I thought I’d post more about the current small switching layout I have, remnants of my larger, around the wall garage layout based on the NYC/PC/CR Hitop branch in the mountains of West Virginia.

The original layout was a 4×8 based on Model Railroader magazine’s Virginian layout back in 2012. My version of the layout was published in the March 2016 issue. I then acquired some modules from a local railroad club that allowed me to expand around three walls of my garage. Photos of the modules when they arrived and were being worked on are below:

After a lot of long hours over the next several years the railroad was completed with a few operating sessions for friends conducted. In 2020 or 2021 the expanded layout was published in the first digital modeling magazine of the Penn Central Railway Historical Society and now looked like this:

Now for the current layout, that’s coming soon in part two. Stay tuned!