Skip to content

78 Miles to Yosemite

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Contact Me
  • Clinic Presentations & Handouts

Category: Layout Visit

Layout Visit: Milwaukee Road Iowa & Dakota Division

Posted on April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 by jkdummler
The view as you enter the Iowa & Dakota Division

Over the weekend we had an opportunity to visit an incredible O scale 2 rail layout, the Milwaukee Road Iowa & Dakota Division built by Ted Schnepf and crew.  I’ve seen photos of this layout, and between my wife and I, we took several hundred photos while we were there, but photos do not do justice to the sheer size of this incredible layout.  This layout can operate with 7 people, but Ted said that 30 people could comfortably be accommodated in operating trains.

Ted was an incredibly gracious host who gave us a tour of the massive, “multi” deck layout.  I say multi because it runs, depending on where you are, between 2 and 7 decks high.  There is staging above and below, and the layout seems to go on forever.  Prototype size yards, 7 tracks, 13 tracks, and more, are spread around the layout, and O scale structures that are built to match the originals exactly are seen all around the layout.  The rolling stock runs the gamete between Atlas O and scratch built with Intermountain, and some of Ted’s on RailsUnlimited brand mixed in.  There are simply too many cars for me to fathom, but Ted could tell us who, when, and how, each of the cars was built.  

We had an fantastic time visiting, came home with some kits to build for the Yosemite Valley P:48, and plan to go back to join Ted and his crew in operating.

-Jeremy

Posted in Layout VisitLeave a Comment on Layout Visit: Milwaukee Road Iowa & Dakota Division

Subscribe via Email

Enter your email in the space provided to be emailed when there is a new post on the blog. Thank you in advance for subscribing.

Recent Posts

  • Thinking Things Out
  • Patience Pays Off
  • Playing With Operation Planning – Initial Thoughts

Archives

Categories

  • Archived / Past Projects or Posts
  • Benchwork
  • Layout Visit
  • Merced Ice & Cold Storage
  • NAPM
  • NP 36' Boxcar
  • Operations Paperwork
  • Organization
  • Proto:48
  • Research
  • RPM Chicagoland
  • RPM St Louis
  • Track Planning
  • Trainfest
  • Uncategorized
  • Workshop
  • Yosemite Valley Railroad

Spam Blocked

1 spam blocked by Akismet
Powered by Headline WordPress Theme