Clinchfield Railroad

     The recently rebuilt Bostic staging yard has worked out great. I am currently working on structures for the Parton Lumber facility located at Logan, NC.

    There are 6 new scratch built structures on the layout, the churches located at Huntdale and Toecane have been built along with the depots at Green Mountain and Marion, NC have been added. I have also added the house on the rock at Kona and the feldspar plant at Spruce Pine.

     The scenery at Marion is now just about complete. I have been adding more custom built cars and locomotives to the layout.       

     I have begun to install MRC sound decoders in some of my locomotives. This has greatly added to the enjoyment of operating the layout.

     One of my operators, Karl Andraschko, has begun to super detail many of my locos and continues to build custom freight cars for the layout. One of the locomotives, a Southern Railway GP-30, was featured on the cover of the Nov-Dec 2012 issue of N-Scale Railroading Magazine. 

     Karl has also custom built 3 cars for the layout. One is an ice breaker car, another is a tie gondola car and the third is an old CC&O lettered MOW flat car. They can be seen on the Rolling Stock page.

     Another operator, Hans Kraemer has also detailed some locomotives and numerous cars

     My layout was featured in the July / August 2008 edition of N-Scale Magazine. The article was written by one of my operators, Ed Schultz.

     The layout also appeared in the March 2015 edition of the Carolina Clinchfield Chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society Magazine "The Jitterbug".

     Model Railroad TV has also released their DVD filmed in the Fall of 2009 on my layout. Their website is www.model-railroad.tv