Museum HO Layout

Central Railway Museum HO Scale Layout

The largest display at the CRM is our double decked HO Museum Layout, which fills about 75% of our total square footage. The layout contains 3 major yards, over 100 sidings and industries, about 300 freight and passenger cars, and about 40 locomotives. The layout depicts railroading in our region in 1958, and it features HO models of a wide variety of Southern Railway locomotives, revenue cars, and complete passenger trains from that time. Scenery is currently about 90% complete.

The layout supports both a Display Mode" and an "Operations Mode."

• In "Display Mode", we run 6-10 trains simultaneously around the 5 independent running loops built into the layout's track plan. We are currently open almost every Saturday of the year, from 9am to 2pm; visitors are always welcome, and admission is always totally free.

• In "Ops Mode", we use our own unique scenario card system to create a realistic 2-3 hour simulation of 1958 railroad operations for up to 15 CRM members and invited guests.

We currently hold 1 evening Operations session per month. Please contact the CRM President (president@CRMHA.org) if you are interested in model railroad operations, and we'll get you signed up for an upcoming operating session.