The Layout That Once Existed

These pages holds a bunch of pictures of an old N scale layout that once existed. It was a fre-lanced layout based on the Chicago & North Western (CNW). The era was somewhere around the late 1960's and early 1970's.

The layout was an L-shaped shelf layout, with track plan as below. All structures were scratch built, except for the cement plant and the engine house.

The main layout section, depicting the terminus of the Tap Creek branch:

1 - MPL Cement

2 - The Tap creek

3 - Oil Dealer

4 - Wayne's Implements

5 - Depot

6 - Residential houses

7 - General store

8 - Parking lot

9 - Len's Garage 1

10 - Ash pit 
11 - Grain elevator
12 - Feed mill
13 - Grain elevator
14 - Coal and sand
15 - Diesel service
16 - Turntable
17 - Water tower
18 - Engine house

19 - Freight house

The junction section, holding the junction with the main line:

1 - Engine shed
2 - Abandoned turn table pit
3 - Farm

4 - Inter-lock tower