Our track building team recently completed a small project in Lindenwood Yard, designed to help improve traffic flow of trains passing through the yard property. The by-pass track, highlighted in yellow in the image, was extended beyond the crossover that links the two arrival & departure tracks. Previosuly, the by…
You won’t pass “go” nor will you collect 200 dollars on this voyage, but the ride is free. For your location-based tour of the layout, click on the rail pass image below to start your journey. Enjoy the trip!
No model railroad layout claiming to represent Saint Louis in the nineteen-seventies would be complete without including the Saint Louis-San Francisco Railway (FRISCO) and the Missouri Pacific Lines (MOPAC). Because of their shape, Frisco’s emblem was know as the ‘Frisco coonskin‘ and Missouri Pacific’s logo of this era was commonly…
Saint Louis Lines adopted a new logo that we feel captures the spirit of the layout. My talented son (J7 Images) put it together for me.
Locomotives for three of the many railroads operating on the Saint Louis Lines pose for the official layout photographer as a couple of commuters at the station seem unimpressed at the spectacle. Locomotive power from left to right: Missouri Pacific (MoPac) U23B #2254, St. Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) GP38 #638, and…