These are some photos of my layout, called the Red Valley Express. It is a fictional railroad that interlines with the NIckel Plate Road. It is mid 1950's era located in the Ohio valley of the United States. My main towns are Fostoria, Conneaut, and Ashtabula Ohio and a couple of fictional town called Smallville and the Lost Valley. There are some other small townships called Colby, and Willoughby
The narrow gauge portion (HOn3) is called the "ToothPick Timber" and is lumber operation.

overall view of my layout

Narrow Gauge and standard gauge bridge

I also painted this backdrop

Load limit sign for standard gauge bridge

This is the narrow gauge sawmill operation. Toothpick Timber harvests the trees and transport them to the sawmill by logging cars. The mill then will process and ship out to the Bittercreek Chair Co and also to the transfer connection of the standard gauge for transport to other towns.Most of this section is scratch built and a couple of kits for the sawmill itself and the water tank. They also transport wood chips as well.

hopper for wood chips loading

close up view of the sawmill

logs ready for the sawmill

water tank

Bittercreek Chair Co dock unloading

Bittercreek Chair Co truck loading

the Bittercreek is a kit I modified for my purpose. It was a Muir Models kit called Alantic Plastics

Smallville depot

backside view of loading dock

This is a Campbell kit

Here are some views of the town. There is a grocery store, gasoline station, plumber wholesale warehouse,lumber yard. Bittercreek Chair company, car dealership and more.

view of Smallville from ground level

Smallville grocery, car lot Bittercreek Chair in this view

another view of Smallville

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