Vol. 64: Greeley Freight Station Museum Part 1
Greeley Freight Station Museum houses one of the world’s largest HO scale layouts. The Oregon, California & Eastern is the dream of retired newspaper publisher David Trussell. He started building this layout in 2004, and by 2009 95% was complete and open to the public. A group of dedicated volunteers worked 30,000 hours to bring this amazing project to fruition.
The OC&E has vast scenic vistas that showcase the rugged terrain between Klamath Falls and Lakeview Oregon. In addition to OC&E trains, the railroad also runs Southern Pacific, Great Northern & Denver, and Rio Grande locomotives.
In this video series, Allen Keller joins David Trussell to tour the Greeley Freight Station Museum and get some valuable insight on modeling. The OC&E is a fun and highly unique model railroad. The OC&E’s 9,600-square-foot home is a lot bigger than the average basement. Because of its size, and to do the railroad proper justice, this series is divided into two parts. In Part 1, Allen covers the line from Chiloquin Staging to the Quartz Mountain summit.
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1:56Overview of the Greeley Freight Station Museum Part 1
The Greeley Freight Station Museum is one of the largest HO scale layouts in the world. The 55-square-foot, Oregon, California and Eastern is the dream of retired Newspaper Publishers David Trussell. He started building the layout in 2004, and by 2009 95% was complete and open to the public. A group of dedicated volunteers worked…
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8:33Touring the Greeley Freight Station Museum Part 1
The tour of the Oregon California and Eastern of David Trussell begins with the Rio Grande Zephyr leaving Chiloquin staging and heads to Klamath Falls. The lead F-unit is number 5771. Klamath Falls sits above the two tunnels. This town used to be one of the largest log producing areas in America. The zephyr continues…
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10:14Operations on the Greeley Freight Station Museum Part 1
Operations on the Oregon, California and Eastern of David Trussell begin at Quartz Mountain Summit where the train they call the Texas Special is heading downgrade. On the point are two GP-35s, followed by two GP-38-2s. At Bly Mountain Loop the grade is 2.2%. F-7s stand ready to work out of the lower helper bucket.…
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8:00Owner Inspiration & Techniques – Greeley Freight Station Museum Part 1
Allen Keller has never seen any layout like Oregon, California, and Eastern of David Trussell. David has had his plans for 50 years designing his dream layout and starting over and scratching it out. In fact this version is the seventh plan for the layout. It was hard to start from scratch to build a…
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5:02The Greeley Freight Station Museum’s Prototype Boxcar
One of the Greeley Freight Station Museum’s best volunteers, Dave Cimbura began some research on finding a prototype boxcar for the museum. The museum happens to be surrounded by railroads, so there are many stored boxcars near them. They decided to do some research to find one that is suitable, and see if they could…
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8:28Coloring Rocks with David Trussell
There are a lot of rocks on the Greeley Freight Station Museum and the Oregon, California and Eastern model railroad, and the color is always consistent. In this video, David Trussell demonstrates how he creates those consistent colors. David uses rock remodeling from Risk Canyon, which is the same as done with Canyon and Colorado.…
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17:19Pouring and Coloring Water
The Greeley Freight Station Museum and the Oregon, California and Eastern model railroad boasts five lakes and four rivers, and two log ponds. When the modelers are working with water, it sometimes takes three or four people to coordinate their efforts, especially when modeling a river with some length. There are many ways of doing…
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