Seligman and Paulden Lines

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CEO PeterA
City, Country Paulden
State/Prov AZ
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Name of Layout Seligman and Paulden Lines

The Seligman and Paulden lines is a large high rail layout of an imaginary railroad built to connect the Santa Fe in northern Arizona with Douglas on the Southern Pacific in southern Arizona. However, due to forces we do not understand, equipment from other railroads frequently show up on the S&P. We are too poor a line to afford our own equiment, so all power is from our connecting roads. A commuter line extends from Douglas to its main suburb, Rock Springs, in the foothills of the mountains. A branch line into the most mountainous area and a coal mining district is presently under construction. On it, trains will leave the main line at Lowell Junction and travel to the town of Lowell where another branch, powered by a Heisler, takes coal cars on another branch to the mines.
The layout is built on traditional construction techniques with a four by four foot module and a plywood and Homosote deck. All scenery is made from tiers of styrofoam, carved to the shapes I want and then coated with a layer of texture paint before application of rock molds and scenery textures. Trees are both homemade and commercial scenery is applied. Buildings in towns are ready made operating accessories, kits, kitbashed and scratch built models. Many have lighting and interiors.

The layout is in a 2400 square foot room which also includes a 16 by 24 foot L shaped prewar tinplate layout.

The high rail layout follows the outside walls of the room and has a mainline run of 400 feet with about 1200 feet of total trackage. The new branch to the town of Lowell and its mine has added another 150 feet of track.

There are eight towns on the layout, Douglas, the largest, contains freight and passenger yards and engine service facilities. Other towns feature industries and switching opportunities. The TMCC command control makes switching very easy and enjoyable.
We used backdrops from BackDrop Warehouse       Member - BackDrop Warehouse Customers

The backdrop may look washed out but this is due to lighting used for photography. Visually it is much darker. (note from BDWH)

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Layout Size 40 by 50 foot around the wall with peninsulas
Feet of track 1200  feet
Era & Place mid century to modern
Control type Lionel TMCC
Prototype Arizona
Contact mjatonna@commspeed.net
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The last set of photos show a prewar O and Standard gauge layout that occupies the center of the train room. It contains three loops of standard gauge and two of O gauge track on four tiers. The trains run through an assortment of colorful prewar buildings, lights, signals and accessories. Despite their almost 70 years of age, they run and sound as they did in the 1920's and 30's.
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