Matthew’s Mercantile, scratch built by D.C. Cebula and named for one of our master modelers, is a local stop for the Catoosa as she makes her way through the yards in Kingston.
Engineers of the Timberlake and Catoosa have a brief exchange at Alatoona Pass.
The cattle pens south end of Dalton; a substantial beef transfer facility. Note the transition of rock scenery, by D.C. Cebula, into the rock ridge backdrop by Brian Kammerrer.
W&A switching engine dropping off a line of “house” (box) cars on a siding in Dalton.
A herd of cattle arrives, having been driven up from Florida, as the Catoosa hauls an up freight into Dalton.
Hostlers maneuver locomotives onto a maintenance track or simply as a rotation to reverse direction.
As the 4-4-0 New York enters the W&A roundhouse, the Alabama, of the Georgia Railroad, is ready for her next run out of Atlanta.
Featured in the October 2020 Model Railroader, Thom Radice’s HO scale Western & Atlantic model train layout is set during the American Civil War and a line that ran between Atlanta, Ga., and Chattanooga, Tenn.
