I've started a small e-mail group of modelers interested in the areas between Cuba and Lebanon. If you'd like to be a part, e-mail me at w3ho@aol.com. Doug Hughes in Annapolis
Dixon, Jerome & Hancock Railway Track Plan Sandy & I will probably be moving to SE Michigan after we retire in 2005. I'll start another layout, but it will be downsized from this DJ&H, which has proven to be too big for one person to build. However, I've become fascinated with Lebanon's track arrangement and industries. I may just have to have a Lebanon on the new layout too. I'm not stopping building the present DJ&H. In fact, I glued down most of the roadbed for Lebanon tonight. The trackplan is in the attached, which is better than the plan shown elsewhere here on the web site. I'll be posting more about Lebanon in weeks to come and as I start putting down ties and rails. I'm using the new CV switch kits, which are beautiful. Doug
Lebanon is in S. Central MO near I-44 MAP Old US 66 ran through it as shown right above the red Section 3 label in the attached Historic 66 map. Doug
Lebanon H. D. Lee factory There was (stil is?) an H. D. Lee factory next to the main line on the NE side of the tracks. They stone washed jeans there and it was served by a Frisco spur many years ago. This building is a must have, but far too big to model. Doug
Lebanon Commercial street is adjacent to the mainline tracks Commercial street is adjacent to the mainline tracks. There are many little stores there. Visable from the layout aisle will be the store backs, not fronts, which are FAR more interesting to model. Here's proof. Doug
Lebanon far side of Commercial Two impressive buildings on the far side of Commercial will need to be profile buildings. The Knight Building has an art deco look with the rounded corner. The post office building is a natural for styrene and Holgate & Reynolds. Doug
Lebanon East leg of wye There are also wonderful industries switched off the wye. Here is the east leg being switched by Charlie Dischinger or one of his colleagues. Doug
Lebanon west leg of the wye The west leg of the wye. That team track went through a diamond to service the MFA and a lumber yard in years past - and on the DJ&H.
Lebanon Phillips 66 oil There was a Phillips 66 oil facility on the west leg of the wye many years ago. A platform is shown here.
Four more industries are located off of two spurs just west of Lebanon Four more industries are located off of two spurs just west of Lebanon. This place was called Kern or Kurn in the steam days. There was also a long stretch of double track through Lebanon-Kurn that I'm modeling. Just west of Kurn on the DJ&H is Eastern Junction going into Springfield & staging. I know, but the basement's only so big.
