ETMRC HO Scale Layout

At the Gym — Location Number 5
Evolution of Granite Mountain & Hickeyville

Bob T Photo 14 September 2019

Webmaster note — Hickeyville with the sun shining.

Rob D's Blog 27 May 2018

Here is one of my favorite train watching spots on the club layout. From my nicely padded stool I can sit and watch my train over most of the layout. My views involve up close views such as the one above where they are inches away, to long range views looking off in the distance where the end of my train can be seen.

Rob D's Blog 06 March 2017

One of the difficulties of taking photographs, while running two trains and answering the occasional question is the subject of the photograph being on the move is sometimes hard to catch at just the right moment. I snapped lots of photos that did not make the cut. Above I got a shot of Bob A's train coming though the town of Hickeyville.

Rob D's Blog 26 June 2016

While he was cleaning treads I snapped a photo of a coal train winding through the company town of Hickeyville. It is named after Leroy who built the town and lots of the structures as I understand it. I suspect there are other modelers that contributed as well.

Rob D's Blog 23 January 2016

This is the metropolis of Hickeyville, named after its creator Leroy. Leroy did not want it named after him but I felt he deserved the honor and the name stuck. Ray recently installed the crossing and if you remember the photo where he and Bob were sitting at the table and Ray was doing something with ties. Well this is what he was doing.

This is not a wood kit just pieces of wood cut and stained and fitted into the gentle curve where the crossing is. Ray seems to love these detail projects and he does a great job of it.

Leroy's culverts will need to be trimmed as well. Might need some more work as well as they seem to be above the bottom of the ditch a quick way for undermining to occur.

October 2013

Granite Mountain in background. Fishing lake and campground by Ron M. PF&O track next to lake. EM&I track in front of Hickeyville Church. Granite Mountain scenery (plaster over screen wire) by Leroy H.

Newsletter August 2013

Mining town progress — Leroy H adjusts the contours of scenery around the new road to the mining community under George W’s supervision.

Newsletter October 2012

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Things are Happening in Hickeyville — LeRoy’s efforts with the mining town have produced houses, shops, a church and a road. LeRoy insists that the town will get a new name soon.

Newsletter August 2012

Developers are everywhere — Buy now, see what you got later. Come to Hickeyville before it’s too late! LeRoy has almost finished preparing the mining town area. Next: laying out the roads and spotting the locations of the various buildings – then moving them.

Newsletter July 2012

A ditch, not a trench – Leroy H recontours the foam to support the mining company town he has been working on. Foam is fast and easy, but the results sometimes not quite what you order without some work.