Winter Valley Regional Railway

02/15/2025

05/22/2023

Nice work. Nice roadway.

01/27/2023

With only about 12 months left for the Winter Valley Regional Railway in it's current form I thought I'd post a couple of old photos. By next September the layout will be donated to a new owner who will appreciate it.

08/28/2022

04/03/2021

The old gas station is effectively finished in place. There may be a few small details added as time goes by but never the less, there it is. A very satisfying COVID project.

03/17/2021

Some of the siding has been installed and sections of it need a bit of a trim but you get the idea.

02/03/2021

Once the roof is on I can start creating the corrugated steel sheets that will cover the roof and walls. Tools are on order.

02/03/2021

Windows are in and appropriately beat up.

01/23/2021

Just got my new windows yesterday so I spent an hour or two building a few. They are made to order, 5 layer laser cut products and far easier to work with than any plastics I have ever dealt with. And they look better and fit, glue and paint better as well.
They are from Eckardt Design LLC in Vancouver Washington and they are super easy to deal with.

07/08/2020

A couple of short movies for everyone….
Thanks to the crew at Trackside Model Railroading for their work on this project.
Late last year they spent over 9 hours chasing trains on the Winter Valley Regional Railroad and they’ve put together a high quality 35-minute video covering a full day of WV and CN action. Now, of course, there are the trailers, about 1 ½ and 8 minutes, for everyone to view.
Find them on the home page at www.wvrr.ca Enjoy

Welcome Many thanks to the team at Trackside Model Railroading for the job they did during a long, productive visit to the Winter Valley Regional Railway late in 2019 and of course for the professional editing that followed.  I’m thrilled with the results and I highly recommend the work of Ross a...

04/24/2020

During the last few days of "boxcar' grain on the prairies a pair of SW1200rs power a shipment past the station in Winter Valley .
The G scale decals were made by PrecisionDesign.com and are by far the best water slide decal product I've ever used. Very happy with the whole transaction.

12/25/2019

More on an upcoming video. I just went through a huge sellection of draft photo captions and the team at Trackside Model Railroading is working hard on the 'movie'.

https://www.google.com/search?q=trackside+model+railroading+digital+magazine&rlz=1C1CHBD_enCA862CA862&oq=Trackside+model+railroading&aqs=chrome.3.0l4j69i61.13237j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Check them out.