SR & WF RR
Sandy River & West Forrest Railroad
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The 50´s
N Epoch
Layout
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How To 1
How To 2
How To 3
How To 4
How To 5
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The history behind the SR & WF layout
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The following pages are made by Helge & Eva-Lena Kristoffersson during our first year "on the net". In the end of 1999 we decided to move the
family pages
to a new site called
Welcome to Kristoffersson´s
where you will find a lot of activities besides the model railroading, like Cats, Garden, our village, our travels and other things.
Our biggest hobby is to build model railroad and today it is possible to share the fun with other people through the Internet.
It is a long story behind the N-scale model railroad of today, briefly described here.
Already at the age of 9, I was often visiting and looking at all those different narrow gauge steam engines running at a cement factory and also the normal gauge freight trains from that factory to the main line.
On next page you can see what happened when I grow up and begun a real job. It was in the golden 50´s when I and some other guys started modeling works.
In the late 60´s and beginning of the 70´s the N-scale pops up, which leeds to a lot of layout plannings, bigger and bigger until it ends up in proportions that become unbelievable expensive. That´s it - the limit was reached. Now the common sense took over. I started to build two modules, one with an iron mine and one engine shed with a switch table.
During the 80´s a preliminary layout plan was drawn, with the modules above and a model of Sandy River station as the main points. In 1985 some substructures was made and the shape of the final layout decided. The building of the layout started in 1988 when we moved from our hometown Malmoe to the small village Staffanstorp, just 27 miles outside Malmoe.
In 1995 I added an extension about 17 feet long, to the original layout, with a second mine, two stations and an harbour.
In the year 2000 I decided to skip the harbour, and try to build a hump yard.
It took a little more time than I presumed, but in January, 2001,
the hump yard was ready. Look at the "How To 5" in the menu.
Due to the membership of NARA (North American Rail Alliance) I planned
for another extension of about 2 by 13 ft, to be able to simulate
connections to other member´s railroads.
This latest part of the layout are ongoing during 2002, and consist of two
villages with one small yard, and an industry area.
Some statistics:
On the original layout including the extension 1995 there is 220 ft of tracks
and 28 turnouts.
On the extension 1999 - the hump yard - there is 62 ft of tracks
and 13 turnouts.
That is, the turnout density on the hump yard is nearly twice as on
the other parts of the layout. One turnout for every seven ft of track
compared with one turnout for every 4.8 ft of track for the hump yard.
The extension 2002 has 72 ft of tracks, and 18 turnouts giving a density
of one turnout for every four ft of track
The sketch below show how the layout is situated in the railroad room:
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Don´t forget to visit my
Electronic Rail Pass page
E-Pass is a kind of electronic and graphic "Thanks for visiting my site" reply,
suitable for exchange between model railroaders, originally created by Jim Thompson.
Clicking the
E-Pass
button, in the menu on the following pages, will
take you to a sample page where a list of my
Received E-Passes
can transfer you to their sites simply by clicking on the owners name.
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You can follow the different stages in the development of the layout by looking
on pictures presented as gallerie photos and
How To Do
photos by clicking on
the
cowcatcher
below.
Travel on with the cowcatcher.....
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before you leave our site, thanks.
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Latest update: Mar 15, 2004
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