| "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. Click EAST at the bottom of each page to go to the next scene. |
| 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 (D.C.)
Atlas cab selector with blocks |
| Benchwork | Cookie cutter tabletop on open grid. Shelves in some sections. |
| Scenery Base | Cardboard skeleton covered with plaster soaked paper towels |
| Landscape | Lifelike Brand "Earth" sprinkled on latex paint
while still wet, 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, Bachmann, IHC, and Walthers, |
| Rolling Stock | Accurail, Athearn, McKean, Rivarossi, Roundhouse, 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 |
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What year is the railroad set in?
Most model railroaders can tell you a year or even a month or a day
which they recreate. The Lone Wolf and Santa Fe doesn't model
an exact date. It is just stuck in the 80's and 90's if you know what
I mean, in what I like to call the Merger/Fallen Flag Era, a time
when there were still several western railroads instead of only the
(Burlington Northern and) Santa Fe and the Union Pacific, a time when
Southern Pacific tunnel motors were bloody nosed and covered in soot,
and Santa Fe freight locomotives where dressed in the Super Chief's
War Bonnet livery. (You can still find F45's in front of a lash and
SD40-2's in the Kodachrome livery.) |
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The Lone Wolf Railroad was started with government subsidies during the California gold rush of 1849. It operated on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range and in the mineral rich desert. It was centered in the town of Lone Wolf, a fictional town located on Wolf Mountain, on the mountain pass between the costal valley and the inland desert. It is named after the only wolf left in California. The railroad got rich off of lumber from the mountains and minerals from the desert. It connected to the Santa Fe in southern California. The mill closed in the 80s. (It was modeled in the 1970s version of the layout.) The mines however are still flourishing from the mineral rich desert. In the modern economic boom of the 1980s the railroad bought out the Santa Fe, becoming the Lone Wolf and Santa Fe Railroad. |
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People Population: 774 (actual figures on layout as of 5/28/2020)
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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. |
 Restaurants Here are a few places to eat on the layout |
| 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. Click East-> on each page to get a grand tour of the railroad as it heads east up over Wolf Mountain. |
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Take the Scenic Tour. Visit areas of the layout from West to East. They include industries and holiday scenes.
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| Start the Scenic Tour by heading East ->>> Berdoo |
West Side |
North End |
Foothills |
Wolf Mountain |
Sand Mountain |
High Desert |
coming sooner or later Barstow |
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Click EAST at the bottom of each page to go to the next scene.
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City
Sounds
 Hear the hustle and bustle of the city. Traffic jams, construction noises, etc. |
Copyright 2003 Updated 5/28/2020
Sunset West Productions
