MILW Road Motive Power on Layout

 

MILW Road

I found pictures of a rather unique sand tower on the Milwaukee Road in these pictures by Tom Harris on Railroad Pictures.net . Hopefully at some point I will get around to scratching building this structure for my layout. 

CNW Layout Update

 

So the inspiration from my layout comes from this track plan published in Model Railroader in 1994. I started building this as an ho scale layout, thanks to my friends Tom and Vern. They were able to convert this plan into HO scale using Xtrak Cad.  The article described some of the key industries located in Janesville in the early 1990's and also an idea about shifting it back about 30 years when the Blue Railroad would have been CNW, The red would represent the Milwaukee Road, and the Green would represent the the Soo Line out of Rockford, Illinois.