Photos on the Branch Line The main trestle on the branch line from Crawford up to Summit
was stick-built from scratch by the late Ralph Edwards. Another view illustrating the completed scenery in this area. A West Central #1217, a C-2 class Consolidation, eases her train over the
main wooden trestle on a dark, dreary, late afternoon back in 1938.
The loco is a Bachmann Spectrum. The arch bridge on the branch line.  A modified Life-Like kit constructed by club member Dennis Hamilton.  He also did the background painting of the forest, upper lake, and waterfall.  The late Ralph Edwards modeled the lower
lake and rock areas.  (He made the trees from his wife's flower bed.) The Consolidation #1217 begins crossing the arch bridge.  The engine was painted and numbered
for the West Central by Dennis Hamilton. This UP Prairie gets a great view over the steel arch bridge.  The smoky little UP Prairie emerges from a tunnel on the branch line from Summit down to Crawford.  It looks like they are burning some really nasty coal today!  These trestles are over Redwood Gulch on the West Central Model Railroad. The upper wooden trestle is on the branchline.  The lower steel and concrete trestle is on the West Central mainline. The little Consolidation #1217 emerges from the tunnel and onto the
second wooden trestle on the branch line up to Summit.

Steam on the WC
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