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Norm Stenzel's Brandywine
& Benedictine Railroad serves the coal region between Clearbrook, VA and Ballard
WVA in the 1950's. Although the B&B is free-lanced, Norm has given it a prototype
feel by building a layout based on the topography of the area, and the railroads
(the B&O,WM,N&W, and Clinchfield) that actually served the area. Norm
has even written a "history" of the railroad to better fix the layout
in time and place.
The HO scale B&B is a blended railroad where operation, scenery and details
focus attention on the trains not the individual layout elements. The layout is
built for operation with 22 trains running during a typical session.
The 30x24 foot double-decked B&B uses a 100 foot long helix to make the transition
between levels. Yet even the lower level is continually rising to meet the top
of the helix. So that means real grades are a prominent part of mountain railroading
on this layout.
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