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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.