Jay's O Scale Layout

My layout is based on the Chicago, South Shore, and South Bend Railroad from Randolph Street Station in Chicago to South Bend, Indiana. It is based in the mid 1960s when I first saw the railroad in South Bend. The layout is 30 by 60 foot. Running NCE DCC and signaling via CTC using C/MRI.

Monday, October 31, 2022

UPDATE OCTOBER 31, 2022

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It is now official. I am taking the layout back to it's roots when I started the layout in 2000 as the Chicago, South Shore, and South ...

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Open House for Jay Beckham's O Scale Model Railroad

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Jay Beckham's Model Railroad Layout. O Scale model of the Pennsylvania Railroad Northern Central branch from Penn Station Baltimore, MD ...

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Coming Soon

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In the near future I hope to add a number of pages to this site. Pages about our CTC, use of C/MRI, 3D printing, laser cutting, a track pla...

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

2022 Mini-Con 3D PRINTING FOR MODEL RAIROADERS

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3D Printing for Model Railroaders at Amazon. Article in March 2018 of Model Railroad Hobbyist E Magazine. 3D Printing at Model Railroade...

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Real Men Don’t Read NMRA’s Recommended Practices

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The Wheel Report, the official publication of the South Mountain Division of the NMRA, just released its Winter edition including my article...

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

A KISS method to control PRR signals on my layout using 4 bits from the SMINI board per signal head.

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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Update

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Today Fred continued work on the remaining CTC modules. Soon we will have to address the programming. I installed the fascia for the exten...

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Jay Beckham: Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, United States; Model Railroader modeling the PRR's Northern Central Branch and a short portion of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Baltimore, MD in O Scale.

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