Hi, Mom! 😃
I’ve been building this layout that I call The Carolina Sandhills Lines for almost six years. I was an N scaler for fifteen years prior, but I decided to return to HO scale and completely started over in 2017. My layout’s track plan started from Gordon Odegard’s Bedford Valley RR plan in the November 1986 issue of Model Railroader. I’ve modified the plan and extended two lines from the layout for interchanging railroads. Those two roads each have a three-track staging yard. The core of my layout is the Seaboard Air Line (SAL) route in and around the Aberdeen, North Carolina area, where the SAL interchanges with the Aberdeen & Rockfish RR and the original Norfolk Southern Ry. The SAL is a roundy-round with a yard in Aberdeen, a wye, and a small two-track staging yard on a folding drop-shelf that represents Hamlet Yard.
I can also remove all of the rolling stock and automobiles and run different eras, e.g., Seaboard Coast Line/Southern/A&R in 1976, Seaboard System/Aberdeen, Carolina & Western (ACWR)/A&R in 1986, and CSXT/ACWR/A&R in 1992. For example:
Spring 1976:

Spring 1986:

I’ll try to add photos and a more-detailed description for a layout tour in the near future.
DFF
I’ve been building this layout that I call The Carolina Sandhills Lines for almost six years. I was an N scaler for fifteen years prior, but I decided to return to HO scale and completely started over in 2017. My layout’s track plan started from Gordon Odegard’s Bedford Valley RR plan in the November 1986 issue of Model Railroader. I’ve modified the plan and extended two lines from the layout for interchanging railroads. Those two roads each have a three-track staging yard. The core of my layout is the Seaboard Air Line (SAL) route in and around the Aberdeen, North Carolina area, where the SAL interchanges with the Aberdeen & Rockfish RR and the original Norfolk Southern Ry. The SAL is a roundy-round with a yard in Aberdeen, a wye, and a small two-track staging yard on a folding drop-shelf that represents Hamlet Yard.
I can also remove all of the rolling stock and automobiles and run different eras, e.g., Seaboard Coast Line/Southern/A&R in 1976, Seaboard System/Aberdeen, Carolina & Western (ACWR)/A&R in 1986, and CSXT/ACWR/A&R in 1992. For example:
Spring 1976:
Spring 1986:
I’ll try to add photos and a more-detailed description for a layout tour in the near future.
DFF
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