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About the Buffalo Creek & Western Railroad HO scale layout

On this website, it is always late summer of 1985. This is when the layout is set, a moment in time when shortlines thrived and early diesels were still in use on many railroads.

I have been fascinated by North American railroads for about twenty years, and I feel the time has come to move from modeling the Southern Pacific in N scale to creating a freelanced HO scale railroad.

The decision to leave my beloved N scale was not made lightly. However, the higher level of detail, the extra space inside locomotives for DCC sound decoders and speakers, and the reality that my eyesight is not what it was 20 years ago all contributed to the choice.

The layout is still in its conception phase, since I am finishing an N scale layout that I would like to operate for a few years before moving on to the Buffalo Creek & Western project.

More details on the trackplan page.

Why do I model North American railroads if I am European?

I started out modeling European railroads when I was a kid. Then, in the early 2000s, I subscribed to Model Railroader magazine. Reading about North American trains quickly sparked my interest. A trip to the USA in 2004 confirmed my decision to switch to US model trains, and in 2006 I built a Southern Pacific layout in N scale.

Afterward, I continued on and off with model railroading. Most recently, my work has focused on the Buffalo Creek & Western layout.