Former Layout by Dave Held

Layout Name:

"Port Huron & Northern"

Official Web Site:

Visit

Layout Status:

dismantled

Track Type:

S/Sn3

Layout Space:

57' x 25'

Layout Style:

Around-the-room, E-shaped

Track Manufacturer:

handlaid, Shinohara & Tomalco turnouts

Rail Size:

code 70 (sidings), 100 (main), 125 (hidden)

Min. Turnout Frog:

#8 (main), #6 (yards, sidings)

Min. Radius:

40"

Completed:

100% complete

Setting:

Detroit, Michigan

Railroad(s) Modeled:

freelance

Control System:

DCC (unknown brand)

Featured In:

The S Scale Resource, Apr 2016, pg 7

NASG Dispatch, Aug 2012, pg 18

NASG Dispatch, Jun 2006, pg 20

NASG Dispatch, Dec 1990, pg 14

Notes:

The layout has been taken down due to a move. Dave was the central vice-president of the NASG for a number of years.

Videos:

Interview with the layout's owner (part 1)

Interview with the layout's owner (part 2)

C&O Chessie SW9 returns to Detroit with hoppers from Grindstone City while below a PH&N ten-wheeler heads toward Bay City after leaving Detroit's Milwaukee Jct.

Same scene as the previous photo, but from a different angle. A PH&N ten-wheeler heads toward Grindstone City with a local passenger train while CN FP9 locomotives pull a passenger train from Detroit to Bay City.

A C&O Alco shuffles freight cars between Bad Axe and Kings Mill.

A C&O Alco switches grain hoppers at Kings Mill.

PM #1225 leaves the 3rd Street Yard in Port Huron with a local freight headed north.