|
|
|
|
| "All aboard!" Welcome to The Lone Wolf and Santa Fe Railroad website. Every person who visits this site gets a free Electronic Rail Pass. The pass is good for one e-trip from Los Angeles to Chicago aboard the Southwest Chief. The scenic route starts in San Bernardino, snakes up Lone Wolf Canyon to Wolf Mountain. From the summit it skates across the high desert to Sand Mountain and down to Barstow. Your pass is at the bottom of this page. Enjoy the Scenic Tour. Long time viewers, please check out What's New. |
| The L.W.S.F.
is a HO scale 1:87 working railroad transportation system which was
built
with walk around operation in mind. It has a schedule, train
orders,
car cards and waybills which guide you as you walk your train along the
layout, up Lone Wolf Canyon and over Wolf Mountain.
But there is another side to model railroading other than operation, the artistic side. This includes scenery, lighting, and sound design. At The Lone Wolf and Santa Fe Railroad we believe that model railroading is an art form and like to create scenes on the layout. After all, "All the world is a stage." Along with the detailed locomotives and weathered freight cars, there are hundreds of people and animals, cars, trucks, motor cycles and bicycles. They all play a role in bringing life to this miniature world. |
Locomotive Roster
| Name | Lone Wolf and Santa Fe |
| Scale | HO 1:87 |
| Prototype Type | Santa Fe / BNSF |
| Location | California |
| Period | 1980's - 2000's |
| Layout Style | Walk Around |
| Rail Height | 56" to 66" |
| Track | Code 100 flex. #4 and #6 turnouts with hand thrown switches |
| Minimum Radius | 22" Main Line 18" Branch to Orange Groves |
| Maximum Grade | Ruling grade: 4 percent (the last
little climb
on the east bound approach)
Average grade: 2 percent |
| Control System | CMI Super Blue Walk Around Throttles
Atlas cab selector with blocks |
| Benchwork | Cookie cutter tabletop on open grid |
| Scenery Base | Cardboard skeleton covered with plaster soaked paper towels |
| Landscape | "Lifelike" Earth sprinkled on wet latex
paint
"Woodland Scenic" ground foam and trees |
| Backdrop | Hand painted mountain ranges on sky
blue walls,
Blue and white lights on white walls |
| Lighting | Incandescent track lighting with colored bulbs on separate dimmers |
| Sound | City Sounds Ambient Background CD's at several different locations |
| Locomotives | Athearn, Atlas, Walthers, |
| Rolling Stock | Accurail, Athearn, McKean, MDC Roundhouse, Roco, Tyco, Walthers, |
| Passenger Service | Amtrak's Southwest Chief, Southern California's Metrolink |
| Operation | Car Card system, scenic staging yard |
| Influences | David Barrow's Cat Mountain &
Santa Fe
W. Allen McClelland's Virginian & Ohio Eric Brooman's Utah Belt |
|
The time of year changes depending on the location. Seasons change along the route with the elevation. It's summer in the desert and winter in the mountains and somewhere in-between all along the way. Some scenes represent holidays, including The Fourth of July, Halloween, and Christmas. |
|
People Population: 564 (actual figures on layout as of 12/28/2006)
|
|
 |
Meet Hobo Joe! He is a colorful character who rides the rails for free. He is not a bum, he is a railroad enthusiast and likes to travel in style. He loves the simple things in life, like eating a meal cooked over an open fire and sleeping under the stars each night while he sees the country. |
| This
is your
free electronic rail pass! Please right click and save the image,
enter your name and date using your paint program.
Place
the pass on your website as a site you have visited and link back to us
at http://trainweb.org/lonewolfsantafe
Click on the Arrow pointing east to begin the scenic tour. |
 |
Take the Scenic Tour. Visit areas of the layout from West to East. They include industries and holiday scenes
|
Berdoo |
 West Side |
 North End |
 |
 click east to begin the scenic tour. |
 |
 |
or later |
 |
coming sooner or later |
|
|
|
|
|
Barstow |
| Home | Locomotives | Rolling Stock | Passenger Service | MoW | Track Plan | Operation | Construction | Lighting | Sound | Tips |
Recommend Links To Our Services and Products
Model Railroad Services
Critique of your Railroad Layout Design
Model Railroad Products
Copyright 2000 This page Updated 2/3/2008
 Free Web Hosting Since 1996. Join & Become Part of the TrainWeb's Railroad Community. |
