Metro North Division

Next stop: Tour de Metro North

• Saturday, April 17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Various locations

The next meet on the Metro North Division timetable is a local with many stops. On Saturday, April 17, 15 division members will be opening their home layouts for the “Tour de Metro North” open house.

The program is a self-guided layout tour. You may visit as many layouts as you’d like between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. No appointments are needed. The tour is open to division members. If you have friends who are model railroaders but have not yet joined the division, bring them along. (Adults only, please.)

The tour was organized by Jeff Zeleny, whose own layout is one of the stops on the tour.

Here’s a list of the layouts which will be open on April 17:

• Huntington & Hartford
  Freelanced Connecticut shortline that parallels the Naugatuck line. Numerous scratch built and craftsmans structures. Fine attention to detail. 45 ft logging line recently added. Layout was featured in the December 1996 MR.
  Bob Collett
  6 Brentley Drive
  Shelton, Conn.
  (203) 929-4084
  bob.collett@me.com
• Penn & Western
  This outdoor Garden layout features two built to life size Aristocraft structures. A caboose and an 18' signal tower. Watch as trains wind over a large area with scratch built iron trestles and bridges. Extensive landscaping covers this layout including an additional outdoor graden adjacent to the layout. Mountains and waterfalls serve to fill in this lovely design.
  Bill Dressler
  16 Rock Ridge Road
  Shelton, Conn.
  (203) 929-9975
  williamedressler@aol.com
• Derby Junction
  This amazingly detailed replication of Derby, CT and the NHRR is not to be missed. Numerous scratch built structures to match the prototype, attention to detail, working signaling system and hand-laid track make this layout very impressive. Unique design of the layout room and creation of back drops round out this layout. Not to be missed.
  John Grosner
  44 Country Lane
  Milford, Conn.
  (203) 683-1560
  jgrosner@optonline.net

• Green Mountain
  This 22x26-foot layout is based on the former Bellows Falls subdivision of the Rutland now own by the Vermont Rail System. A point-to-point walk-in with a continuous loop running capability set in late summer to early fall. Bench work is L-girder contruction with code 83 rail. Scenery consists of plaster-impregnated gauze over a latticework of cardboard strips. I cover this with Sculptamold and ground goop. Forested area include homemade trees and some factory made trees. Operations is thru and local freights, switching yards. A typical operating session consist of three 2 men crews doing yard switching and one person running thru freights.
  Bob Cochran
  140 Skokorat St
  Seymour, Conn.
  (203) 881 9884

• Olympia & Puget Sound
  Freelanced road depicting the Puget Sound area around Tacoma, WA in the early 1950's. The layout features over 100 structures with numerous FSM buildings, a scratch built sawmill, boathouse and harbor scene, trestles, gas stations, boats, and numerous fine details. This layout was featured in March 2007 MR and January 2010 RMC
  John Elwood
  110 Knollwood Drive
  Stratford, Conn.
  (203) 377-0032
  jelwood110@gmail.com
• Westport Shore
  Layout depicts a branch line which interchanges traffic with the New Haven and Boston and Albany RR's. Layout features a large custom built curved arch truss bridge, engine terminal and a logging RR. A mixture of scratch and kit-built structures. Two hidden staging areas and two helixs
  Vincent Gallogly
  105 Woodhaven Drive
  Trumbull, Conn.
  (203) 377-0032
  railvin@charter.net
• Tri-State Rail
  Loosely based on a fictional New England Central line from CT to Vermont in the 1990s.
  Jeff Zeleny
  58 Stirrup Hill Road
  Fairfield, Conn.
  (203) 255-4149
  mt813@aol.com
• Port Sebago & Southern
  Visit northern New England in the steam to diesel transition era. Layout includes several scratch built and expertly constructed structures and scenes. View a train elevator in operation. Numerous staging yards, interchanges and operating features.
  Al Oneto
  327 Springer Road
  Fairfield, Conn.
  (203) 255-1331
  aloneto@juno.com
• Santa Fe
  A freelanced depiction of the Santa Fe RR in the midwest. Mountains, waterfront, hidden yard and industrial switching area.
  Brian Sullivan
  209 Brookdale Road
  Stamford, Conn.
  (203) 329-8088
  bnjsulli@optonline.net
• CB&Q Brookfield Div.
  This layout is based on the Burlington route. The layout has 36" min curves, three towns with yards and engine facilities interspersed with rolling countryside. Feed mills, elevators, farms, and small towns
  18 Laurel Ledge Court
  Stamford, Conn.
  (203) 461-8758
  rawolter@optonline.net
• Boston & Maine Central
  Conceptually Maine based freelance layout. Four peninsulas with two main cities. Single track main line and hand thrown turnouts.
  Franklin Lang
  112 Westover Lane
  Stamford, Conn.
  (203)425-3200
  fblang@optonline.net
• Delaware & Susquehanna
  The 1,300-square-foot layout is loosely based on the old Lehigh Valley line between Allentown and Wilkes Barre, Penn. (through the Lehigh Gorge). It is a proto-freelanced version of that area, with lots of overhead and run-through traffic from NS and CP, with appearances by the actual current owners of the line, the RBM&N.
  Phil Monat
  3125 Independence Avenue
  Riverdale, N.Y.
  (718) 884-0261
• Dutchess & Hudson Valley
  Robert Seckler
  68 Gabriels Path
  Poughquag, N.Y.
  (914) 490-5901
• Muscoot Valley R
  Two basement rooms comprise this fee lanced layout. A significant scene features a harbor locale with a large trestle and coal dump. This layout was featured in GMR 2005
  John Stamatov
  27 Annadale
  Armonk, N.Y.
  (914)273-8485
  jstamatov@verizon.net  
• Silver Streak & Bayside
  Don Balufox
  101 Drake Smith Lane
  Rye, N.Y.
  (914)967-6348