Bill Scobie's Sn3 Colorado Southern

The FNGers had a great time operating Bill's layout. This realistic presentation of Colorado narrow gauge is amazing. Hope you enjoy the photos.

Mike Hamer's B&M - A "Fraction of the Action"

Yes, a bunch of the boys descended my layout for an ops session and we certainly enjoyed ourselves. A crew is busily blocking traffic at Lowell Junction for an outbound manifest freight.

Jim and Fred are all smiles as they work the yard at the entranceway to the room. The layout is located inside an 11X13 spare bedroom in my basement.


We catch the outbound manifest freight behind an ABA lashup of F's after they stopped in North Dover to set out traffic and lift cars. They've departed town and reached the crossing with the Maine Central. Joel and Bob are in care of this train.

A sampling of the traffic on the sidings in North Dover. The mainline curves through the outbound end of town. We see two D&H freightcars today, one on the north siding and one on the south siding.

Later in the session, Chris and Ron headed into the layout room to care for Maine Central traffic.

They brought MEC train #391, "The Oil Can" into town. This is a unit train of tankers. They will exchange empties for loads. The fuel is used to run the paper mills in the interior of Maine.

We will say "Goodbye" with this final shot of our trio of F's taking their train across the New England River Bridge.

That's Bob, myself and Chris on the far sofa with Fred, Ron and Joel to the right. A few other folks from the session are out of the picture. I hope you enjoyed this fraction of the action in a typical Friday Night Group operating session.