Waupaca Area Model Railroaders 
 

What began as a six-foot long demonstration model for a clinic on how to build and scenic a model train layout has grown since its construction in the late 1980s to a 22. x 52. portable train layout.  Revolutionary for its time was the fact that the layout is the property of the club, rather than individual members.  With individual club members owning modules, members were free to scenic their modules in whatever fashion they chose as long as the three tracks on the module met the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) standards for distance from the front of the module and between spacing between the tracks.   
 

This departure allowed our club to take a thematic approach and build a layout with continuity of scenery and depicting railroading between Waupaca and Wausau with stops at Sheridan, Amherst, Stevens Point, Junction City, Weston and Waupaca..  This Digitrax (digital command control) controlled layout has grown from 8 to 24 modules, mounted or loaded on six steel multi-level wheeled racks that allow the club to set-up or pack-up in approximately one hour.  What started as a layout that could be transported in three pick-up trucks has also outgrown two trailers and now is transported in a 22. double axle trailer.   
 

What you are currently looking at is the result of a nine-month refurbishing.  Statistically our layout has 9.4 scale miles of track  (515.5.).