Bill Noel This web page was last updated on June 10th 2010.

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My home layout, the Canadian Northern Railway, is HO scale.  It is still very much under construction but here are a few pictures and video that illustrate progress.

A cab ride over the Canadian Northern	A days work on the mine run
Switching the rock crusher	The quarry locomotive goes for a spin on the main line

A Budd car runs below the quarry on Kelly mountain.	Budd car with a coal mine in the background
A GE 45 ton switcher places a cut of cars in the quarry.	The quarry provides rock which is transported in these hopper cars to a rock crusher.
Kelly Mountain, south side.	Diesel shop.
The Diesel shop, close by the Central Yard, has working interior lights.	4001 dropping off empty hoppers and picking up loaded ones.
Around Kelly mountain into lower tunnel	4001 hauling a load of coal coming through the south side lower tunnel on it's way to the Albertville coke retort facility.
The top of the north side of Kelly mountain.	Quarry men are hard at work
An SNCF ABJ Renault railcar on a railfan special pauses for a photo by a stream.	The scenery keeps expanding.
Blind Cut with North Albertville in background.	New signage for the Churcher Mine.

Click here to see these and other pictures of the Canadian Northern Railway Click below to see images in slide show format.	Click here to see pictures of the evolution of Kelly Mountain Click below to see images in slide show format
Click here to see Canadian Northern Railway videos Click below to see videos directly.	Click here to see Canadian Northern staff at work. Click below to see images in slide show format