The Wolf Praire RR

My layout is based in the spring of 1937, in NW Montana, it is a representation of a fictional town named Wolf Prairie (Wolf Prairie, although not a town, is an area up the Fisher River Road, in the Flathead Tunnel area of the BNSF) The area my layout is based off of the Big Blackfoot Branch of the Milwaukee Road, the Big Blackfoot is a branch line that leaves the Milwaukee main in Bonner/Milltown Dam (see picture below) Mt, and travels up the canyon approximately 30 miles or so. It was used by the Milwaukee to bring logs down to the mill in Bonner. My little road branches off the Blackfoot, and goes up into the mountains where gold and silver has been located. There is a small town, a mine and a small sawmill to support both. The material is mined above Wolf Prairie, the loaded ore cars are brought down the mountain and set out for the daily pickup by a MILW 0-8-0 loco, who brings empties up from Bonner and takes the loaded cars back down to Bonner for pickup by the Milw Road. Currently the motive power is 2 each 3-truck Shays (Bachmann Spectrum), 1 each 2 truck Heisler (Rivarossi), a P2k 0-8-0, a Class A Climax (MDC with Spectrum Drive train) and an MDC gas-electric box cab (Spectrum Drive train).

Geared Steam, Jul 22, 2011
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