An Aerial view of Little Current, ON Published by A.A. Gleason Jr of South Bay Mouth. Photo by Ed. Dreier. Undated. This is a nearly perfect a photo of the Little Current yard that I’m using as reference to build my layout. In the lower left edge cars are visible 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
