Layout is 7'-6-3/8" wide by 19'-6-3/4" long. Used airplane wing modular benchwork, as designed by Bob Hyman, (Sn3 Nut). Track is ME code 70, with Central Valley turnout kits, highly modified. So highly modified, that now they have mostly been ripped out, and replaced with Fastrack Turnouts. They work much better then Central Valleys, and aren't much more trouble to install than ripping out the entire layout and starting over would have been. Yard Tracks are on 1/2" plywood and Homabed. Main line tracks are on spline roadbed topped with Homabed. Minimum mainline radius is 30". Maximum grade is 4.125 % Minimum turnout is #5. Track Plan by Roger Duffield (Boss Hogg). Room Design by John Waite (Mexican John). The late Jim Besleme, known to his friends as "Bindle Jim", installed the Little Emma and Olivia Rose Mines. Photographic Documentation by Cpn Hal Shaffer, French Foreign Legion (Ret). Overall concept is by Hook or Crook.

The layout is a loose approximation of the line from Leadville to Basalt, with the town of Thomasville in the middle. Mining and logging are featured industries, with facilities for servicing locos, miners and loggers, as well.

Engines are a mix of Hallmark and MEW Brass plus an assortment of Bachmann ten wheelers and consolidations. You gotta have Shays, Heislers and Climax's for logging and mining.

All will be on DCC, and as many as possible will have sound. There is also a passenger train that will surprise many folks.

The layout actually runs quite well, except when guests are on hand, so come and take a chance on seeing it run. Operation is designed to be fun, rather than strict adherence to a clock or time table.

Following photos by Mike Van Hove