Wow, it's been three years since my last post….shame, shame, shame! That said, a lot of progress has been made on my On30 Sheepscot & Sandy River Rwy. (she was originally named the Sheepscot Rwy. but I felt there was too much of the SR&RL's being built to ignore the reference)

The railway is a composite of the WW&F and the SR&RL's with scenes that reflect (not exactly) actual places on both roads. For instance on the SR&RL's side, my railway begins at Burnham Jct. with a connection to the Maine Central. The line passes through a small junction called So. Troy and then on to Troy, Maine (which looks a bit like Strong on the SR&RL).
From Troy there are two additional branch lines, one to a place called Unity Mills (aka, Kingfield) and a second line to the WW&F section of the layout featuring Sheepscot, a place with the essence of Wiscassett and then finally heading up to Andrews, Me. again looking a lot like Albion on the WW&F.

Confusing, probably, but it allows me to model places of some importance on both lines where visitors who know the the Maine "lilliput" roads will usually recognize.

I built the S&SR Rwy. to "operate" by a small group (3-4) so the three "branches" make sense. Trains begin out of either Troy yard or up in Unity Mills (like they did in Kingfield). The towns along the line were designed to give the operator approx. 30 real time minutes of work before moving on. The way the railway is laid out there are two junctions (not including the std. gauge jct. at Burnham) where trains will meet, adding additional work time to the runs as they pass each other. Ops sessions run so far show  runs of 1 hr. per job.  After a job is run we usually switch jobs allowing each operator to try their hand at each of the jobs on the railway. Ops sessions can easily run 3-4 hrs.