Current Layout by Ed Loizeaux

Layout Name:

"NYC Valley Division"

Official Web Site:

Visit

Layout Status:

active

Track Type:

Layout Space:

20' x 30'

Layout Style:

Around-the-room, figure-8

Rail Size:

code 100

Min. Turnout Frog:

#8 (main), #6 (yards), #4 (industrial)

Min. Radius:

54" (visible), 48" (hidden), 24" (industrial)

Track Height(s):

42" to 61"

Mainline Track Length:

305'

Era:

1948 to 1958

Setting:

upstate New York

Railroad(s) Modeled:

NYC, freelance

Control System:

DCC (North Coast Engineering)

Featured In:

NASG Dispatch, Sep 2020, pg 16

S Gaugian, May 2013

Model Railroad Hobbyist, Oct 2009, pg 145

Model Railroader, Nov 2008

Great Model Railroads 2005, pg 28

Book:

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Notes:

Built into a converted three-car garage. Nearly 20 people contributed to the completion of this layout. Ed published the 3/16 'S'cale Railroading magazine, was the president of the NASG for number of years, was a member of the NMRA's DCC Working Group, and co-authored a book on DCC.

Other Links:

Photos taken for the 2011 NASG/NMRA Convention

Photos by Michael Eldridge

Videos:

2014 Visitor-shot Video (consider muting the audio)

2007 Visitor-shot Video (consider muting the audio)

The circus is coming to town! The 0-6-0 NYC Switcher #232 is spotting the Ringling Brothers Circus advertising car #2 on the team track of the town where the circus will soon perform. The locomotive was made by Boo-Rim Precision, Korea and imported by River Raisin Models. The advertising car is an American Models coach car, which was custom-painted, decaled, and fitted with a detailed interior. The structures are from a variety of kits. Circus trains were a unique and colorful experience for everyone. Two weeks prior to their arrival, the advertising car came to town filled with posters, complimentary tickets, signs, and all kinds of promotional materials. Every vacant square foot of space was soon covered with a poster or sign, local politicians were given free tickets, retail merchants displayed circus-related materials in their shop windows, and so forth. The excitement was stimulated to a fever-pitch culminating in a parade once the circus train itself arrived. Advertising cars were typically parked on any convenient siding near the downtown area. This photo appeared in the inside cover of the November 2024 issue of the Railroad Model Craftsman magazine as part of the NASG's promotional ad campaign.