
My first model railway exhibition layout is 29th Street Wharf, an HO scale, “freelance”, box theatre-style representation of a typically rundown railroad yard located on a West Coast USA city sea-front.
The exhibit has been gradually evolved over 5 years, to depict a fictitious US railroad scene and associated industry activity, over the period 1960s – 1990s. The scenario is that industrial and commercial organisations require railway hopper and box-car handling facilities and the model features a small locomotive servicing area, a timber landing/pier, and a stone/aggregate loading terminal linked to a conveyor system. The latter is accessed via 2 harbour-side tracks and river/sea-going barges can also be loaded.