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Video: The N scale Union Pacific Geneva Subdivision

By Angela Cotey | August 19, 2016

| Last updated on December 2, 2020

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Daryl Kruse’s N scale layout models the modern-era Union Pacific Geneva Subdivision in northern Illinois. A couple of the detailed scenes on Daryl’s model railroad include Proviso Yard and a Mississippi River crossing.

25 thoughts on “Video: The N scale Union Pacific Geneva Subdivision

  1. Love the reflection of the train in the “water” under the bridge. It sure adds to the authentic look of the model.

  2. I lived in Clinton Iowa where the bridge crosses the Mississippi River for 30 years. Great job on the bridge, it looks like the real one and the highway bridge on the backdrop works out great. My layout is going to include what was the Chemplex Plastic plant , now Equistar, where I worked for 20 years. Overall a great layout.

  3. That was terrific, I am going to build a new layout, I hope I come close to The Geneva Subdivision.

  4. Great lay-out–where did you get the vehicles that are on the lay-out? Most the vehicles that I see in the Walthers catalog are earlier than 1980. Thanks.

  5. Although I am planning and building in HO, the more I see layouts like this in N scale the more I am tempted to switch. Great layout and so well presented.

  6. I am looking for someone to send pictures to of my new track layout to for comments on wether it has merit our how it should be revised or how to proceed with bldgs. & landscapeing. This my first try at a track plan and I would like to move on. I guess I need a little mentoring.
    Thanks.
    Sterry Vander Meer
    picboy17@gmail.com

  7. Thomas Meleck, it is left hand running because this is the old Chicago & Northwestern track, and they ran their trains left-hand side. Most other railroads were right-hand sided. Since it was already in place, and perhaps because of the cost of re-doing everything to match the Union Pacific's right-hand lines elsewhere in their system, it has for now remained as it was under the C&NW, which the U.P, bought out some years ago.

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