David Parks’ Cumberland West in HO scale | In this Trains.com Video exclusive, modeler David Parks shares his large HO (1:87) scale layout built in Northern California. David has deftly combined elements of the Baltimore & Ohio and Western Maryland railroads as they operated in 1953 in and around Cumberland, Maryland.
As narrated by 0ur host/builder, you’ll tour the B&O line by following various trains, both freight and passenger, with occasional detours to chase WM trains too! All along the way, you’ll enjoy remarkable mountain scenery, large-scale industrial complexes, plus railroad infrastructure that’s faithfully modeled to capture 1950s prototype practices. But while the layout is set the the Golden Years of Railroading, the control systems behind it are definitively 21st Century! A sidebar exploration into the signaling and LCC operations with Leo Pesce helps reveal how this layout can be such a thrill to operate autonomously, with a full crew, or even some of both!
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