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Cool Water -- Sons of the Pioneers

This layout really needs to be in one of the American mags, such as Model Railroader's annuals "Great Model Railroads" or "Model Railroad Planning." With that in mind, I took the liberty a couple weeks ago of sending the editor of "N Scale Railroading" a link to this topic. He likes the layout, but concluded his reply with some gibberish about NSR needing "original content," whatever that has to do with anything. What's not original? When I worked as an associate editor at a large model railroad magazine in Wisconsin several years ago, we would have strongly considered an article on such a fine layout as this!

Moonlight Serenade -- Glenn Miller

Green Tambourine -- The Lemon Pipers

Enjoyed the two-part series in BRM several issues ago! Nice to see more of Longdrem.

Actually, the altitude is a bit lower than that, as Interstate 90 crests the pass at 3,022 feet. The former Milwaukee right of way enters the east portal of the tunnel at Hyak, a couple miles east of the I-90 summit and, off the top of my head, probably closer to 2,700 feet altitude. Bottom line is that the Milwaukee Road possessed the best route through the Cascades, even though they were the Jimmy Come Lately, well after Northern Pacific Railroad (not "Railway" until 1893) had surveyed (and rejected) Snoqualmie Pass and the Great Northern selected what became known as Stevens Pass. Milwaukee also boasted truthfully of having the most direct route between Seattle and the Midwest, and was beating NP and GN times moving freight between Seattle and Minneapolis/Chicago.

Wildest Dreams -- Asia

Rock Bottom -- UFO

I agree that odds are the #24 is a former BN (nee NP) torpedo tube Geep 9.

Substations every 15 miles? I don't think so. The Milwaukee Road had a total of 22 substations between Harlowton, Mont., and Avery, Idaho, and between Othello and Tacoma, Wash., a distance of about 650 route miles. So about one substation every 30 route miles distributed between the two divisions. In between Avery and Othello was the non-electrified section known as The Gap.

City of the Angels -- Journey

White Car -- Yes

Red -- Sammy Hagar

The Southern is one my favorite railroads! Spectacular scenery you've made there. A very nicely composed layout. As for the fascia, I'd opt for deep green to complement the scenery. Don't overlook that the Southern also ran coal trains, and one or two unit trains of black diamonds from southwestern Virginia would not be out of place, passing through from the mine to their destination, with empties going the other way. Here's a site that might be of interest: Appalachian Railroad Modeling

Must be lonely on your island. ...

This layout is simply a masterpiece. Just superb in every way.

I'm thinking they would have turned to GE for something, along the lines of the E60.

That's going into the Wayback Machine a bit -- seems so anyway!

Looking superb!

A really beautiful layout -- and another siren's call luring me to 7mm scale!

Wow, aside from the missing line wires, that's a real beauty of a shot!

Alas, I will have to content myself with admiring your craftsmanship via the Internet. Happy to see that Portchullin made Photo of the Week!

Those are beauts! One could enjoy an hour just looking at all the detail.

Ah, yet another well-built 7mm layout luring me to new challenges. I hope you will continue to post more photos!

Superb!