Layout, Track & Construction
Layout planning, prototype interpretation, benchwork, trackwork, and construction.
-
SITREP/ VERNON RIVER/ 20JUl23@0111Z
Plans for S-scale Vernon River modules and a future HO-scale PEI railway layout representing the mid-1970s through abandonment.
-
Welcome to Vernon River in 1:64… wait, what?
Why the 1947–48 Vernon River modules suit S scale while a future HO layout will represent the PEI railway’s 1980s twilight years.
-
The ties that bind…
Weathering wood ties for handlaid Code 55 track using acrylic paint and distressing techniques for the 1950s Vernon River layout.
-
Finding inspiration from a later era
A St. Peters Bay potato-loading photo provides prototype ideas for Vernon River’s team track, vehicles and loading scene.
-
A sunny winter’s day prototype visit.
A winter field visit to Vernon River, PEI, to study the former railway right-of-way, landscape, buildings and roads for an HO layout.