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     Below are some pictures, links, and stories of the beginnings of my fine scale HOn3 and Mainline home layout. What had started out as a simple N scale portable layout has become an ever consuming quest to start the most detailed HO scale layout of my life. I spent my younger life reading all about John Allen's "Gorre & Daphetid" and George Sellio's "Franklin & South Manchester" and all the articles in the Narrow Gauge Gazette, so I was always determined to build a master layout when I got older, well the time has come and now I have started that life long dream.

    The KD & VJ Rwy will be both, an out and back narrow gauge layout as well as a dog bone mainline layout. The KD&VJ right of way is utilized by the Western Pacific for mainline freight and passenger service, while the KD&VJ  Narrow Gauge line, formerly the Beet N Rwy and Narrow Gauge Lumber company, will serve both the Dry Moss Mining Operations as well as the Grande Pin'oto Lumber company. The Beet N UP Rwy ops went out of business 20 years before the time period of this layout. The logging operation will be the last bastion of the old company but under the new name.

    This site will include various how-to sections, several links to some of the greatest layout websites on the net, and links to where I have bought my materials as well as some of the books that I have used to get  this railroad running. Any Book links on this site will take you to Amazon books where you can buy the book. These links help pay for this site. So please look on. 

"The birth of a reverse loop module"

A General Store is reborn.

Alas,

 the new and improved Modular design for the
 New HOn3 set.

And with Oak Fascia

This part of the future Empirical Layout will be the Marina and roundhouse for the Narrow Gauge. An Interchange will be further up the mountain and closer to the Mills. This module is 11' x 28" with the bulge on the right side out 45"

A brief History to date

The Beet N Up railways first foundation, when it was N scale

Here we see the last version of the N scale pike. Somewhere at this point I realized I was never going to be able to achieve in N scale was I had grown up loving in HO, "EXTREME DETAIL"

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