Southern St Charles Branch Layout
Dan Bourque's HO scale model train layout representing the Southern Railway's St Charles Branch in the coal fields of southwestern Virginia in the 1960s and 70s. Enjoy how-to videos for layout building, model building, DCC, and sound decoders along with views of the model railroad as it progresses.
St Charles Branch Layout Tour - October 2025
Railfanning the Gin Creek Branch 1968
Squealer by Iowa Scaled Engineering
Black Mountain Mine Run 1968
Simple model train “handbrakes” for spotting cars on a grade
Creating directional horns in a DCC consist using SoundTraxx Tsunami2 decoders
Automatic grade crossing flashers for the St Charles Branch
Simulated fusees for model railroad grade crossing
SoundTraxx Econami sound in Proto 2000 GP7