After talking with Kevin about some of my ideas for the HOn30 pike, and we’ve decided to plow on, full speed ahead. At the same time, we’ll be plowing on, full speed ahead on our regularly scheduled On30 projects. “What the heck,” we figure. Model railroading is supposed to be fun, despite the fact that Model Railroader magazine removed it from their masthead several years back. What’s up with that, anyway?

Anyway, while reading a page on Carl Arendt’s Small Layout Scrapbook, I stumbled across a really neat idea for a layout — a private estate railway, set in New York. An article, which you can view here, appeared on the railroad in the December, 1923 issue of Popular Science.

While the prototype was a 2-mile-long point-to-point layout, I still think it might make an interesting basis for the little portable HOn30 line we’re going to start building. There are, however, certain features I wanted to include on the layout that are lacking in this prototype — specifically, some sort of wharf scene. Even so, this looks like a really fun little theme for a “macro” layout.