Laying track is always an exciting time. I’m carefully working on laying track one module at a time while also building other details for the Little Current layout. I’m using Peco Code 83 switches and modifying them so there is no question they will conduct electricity reliably without relying on Continue Reading
This week I’m gluing down cork roadbed on the Little Current Layout. This really is a small modular layout so I can work in sections as time permits. For those of you with larger layouts this may look comically small. The only catch is making sure where the modules connect Continue Reading
Little Current Layout track plan is getting transferred to the modules. I like to start with the most difficult combination of switches and then work out from there. The printed templates are very handy. I like to use track planning software so I know everything should fit but there are Continue Reading
Module construction is never that exciting to post about but its crucial to everything that comes afterward. The three Little Current modules line up with brass table leaf pins and are mechanically connected with large neodymium magnets. They hold with about 25lbs of force. Electrical connection is made with another Continue Reading
Today I started benchwork construction. I live in a small house and this time I wanted to build a layout that can be easily setup anywhere, fits the space I have and that I can take with me and expand if I move. Each module is made of two sheets Continue Reading
Welcome to my new model railway track plan! The Little Current Model Railway is a modular switching layout that fits in my basement and is transportable in my car.
I came across this digitized recording posted to YouTube by Jeremy Hopkin. Its a wonderful film from 1992 riding a HiRail from McKerrow to Turner filmed by Keith Hopkin with George Dennis Jr. (George’s dad was a long time engineer on the AER/CPR line from Sudbury to Little Current). I’m Continue Reading
Northern Ontario Rails has a chapter with wonderful colour photographs of the Little Current Subdivision by Keith Hopkin. This book is what got me really thinking about a switching layout based on this beautiful corner of the world.
The Unoffical Website of the Algoma Eastern Railway preserved on the Internet Time Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160305053326/http://magma.ca/~morcomp/aer.html Its a wonderful site for history of the AER. The site was run by the AER Heritage Group managed by Dale Wilson, John Morgan, Mike LeHoux a past councillor in the Town of Espanola. Continue Reading
