Tour Details

Saturday October 25, 2025

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AM Tours

10am - 1pm

PM Tours

1pm - 5pm

James and Sally Bando’s Grand Western Mining Company Railroad

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1890's mining district in Colorado.

City: Woodstock
Scale/Gauge: G
Sally Bando

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Steve Austin’s Elkhorn Iron & Timber Co RR (EL&T)

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The El&TCo. is a 1947-era backwoods railroad featuring logging, sawmilling, steel manufacturing, coal mining, and many of the ancillary industries necessary to make this all work. The scenery and scratch-built structures and motive power are my specialties. The heavily wooded sawmill peninsula includes an engine servicing facility, river, log dump and sawmill. The scratch-built sawmill is 12" x 32" x 15" high. The mill complex includes the powerhouse, slash burner, conveyors, lumber stacks, water tanks, and the small village. The steel mill complex covers an area 30" deep by almost 17 feet long. The highly detailed harbor scene, including numerous boats and small freighters, at the layout entrance, covers an area 7' by 8' (see the photo section!). The layout has been featured in the Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette and the On30 Annual as well as Scale Rails and Model Railroader. My scratch-built On30 Shay won lst place at the Piedmont Division and the Southeast Region train shows in 2000; it won 2nd place at the NMRA National at San Jose with 113 points. The 336 sq ft Elkhorn expansion features a fully automated interchange with the original 560 sq ft purpose-built layout room. Both spaces feature double deck railroading. The expansion includes several waterfront scenes. The approximately 7'x3` Upatoi Creek includes a boatyard scene with a shrimp boat in for repairs and maintenance as well as an automated shuttle train serving the numerous scratch-built extensively kit-bashed enterprises along the Creek. A 6'x3' rail-served riverfront scene includes extensive docking facilities capable of handling 4-6 craft simultaneously. The expansion spotlights a highly detailed (they are all highly detailed ) 2'x4' welding shop, welding services and scrap metal salvage complex. A well-detailed 3-stall engine house with turntable and machine shop is the next planned construction project.

City: Talking Rock
Scale/Gauge: On30
Steve Austin

Russ Bundy’s Cedar Creek

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Cedar Creek is a small mountain community where you would go (if you were 1:32 scale) to take a weekend vacation. We have an Inn with a restaurant, or there are several cabins for rent. The main attractions are equestrian activities with guided hours tours available, fishing in the trout stream but the bears get first choice by the river, hiking, and camping.

City: Marietta
Scale/Gauge: G
Russell Bundy

All Day Tours

10am - 5pm