RECENT PRESS

The willoughby Line was featured in the June 2011 Model Railroad Hobbyist.
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A recent operating session was featured in the March 2012 MRH
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FEATURES OF THE LAYOUT

• Proto - lance style
• Operations based track plan
• Double Deck with a third lower staging level
• Double Helix
• Many Scratch built and Kitbashed structures
• Swing gate entrance

"NEXT STOP WILLOUGHBY"

The "WIlloughby Line".name comes from one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes, "A Stop At Willoughby". I came up the with the name as part of an effort to name my previous layout. While I liked the way the "WIlloughby Line" name sounded, I felt the reference was a bit dark and ended up using another name for the layout.

When I started designing this layout in 2004, I decided to go with "Willoughby Line" because I felt that it described my "proto-lance"/freelance theme of combining scenes from various railroads into a place that seems real, but never existed. I also enjoy the idea that the layout, like Willoughby in the story, represents a relaxing retreat from the stresses of everyday life.