What's New
Doug Hughes' Dixon, Jerome & Hancock (Eastern Division) Mike Corley's Manitou
& Southwestern (Western Division)
David Bogard's Fayetteville and Eastern
(Central Division)
Doug Hughes' Dixon, Jerome & Hancock (Eastern Division)
The DJ&H RY was an HO layout depicting the Frisco's Lebanon Subdivision-Eastern Division featuring the rugged Ozarks scenery characteristic of that region. The era is the summer of 1967 to 1969. The 1967 date allows for the last vestiges of passenger service, although there was only one train per day throughout the area in each direction, and it was mostly a mail train. This era will allow for the renumbered motive power and cabooses and both black-yellow and mandarin orange-white equipment.
The major Frisco operations involve mainline traffic between St. Louis and Springfield, MO. The train lengths will be quite long consisting of a lot of autorack and covered hopper traffic. The modeled Frisco will include most of the prototype towns between Newburg and Lebanon, MO as depicted on the Missouri Frisco map. Staging will be from/to eight-track east and west end yards called St. Louis and Springfield, respectively. More information about the DJ&H RY is available in FMIG Newsletter 104, Winter 1989 or contact Douglas J. Hughes. Doug dismantled the DJ&H in 2005 upon his move to Michigan.
