Old Orchard, Pottstown & Southern (OOPS!)

Providing Free Transportation over our railway

for any freight or passengers that will comfortably fit inside our rolling stock!

Superintendent: Dennis Grigassy, Sr.

Station Location: Fort Bend County, Texas

E-Mail: dgrigassy@gmail.com

Web Page: www.DennisGrigassy.com

Car Forwarding: JMRI Operations

Motive Control: CVP Easy DCC wireless

Room Size: 18' x 12'

Scale: On30 Narrow Gauge

LayoutDescription:

In August 2011, I made the decision to convert my HO scale layout to O scale narrow gauge. I now operate On30 rolling stock on my existing trackage. Sidings and spurs have been rebuilt with wider clearances to accommodate the larger locomotives and freight/passenger cars, and new replacement structures have being added to replace the smaller scale buildings that have been removed.

Located on the second floor of my home in a 12'x18' room, the O-scale narrow gauge Old Orchard, Pottstown & Southern (OOPS!) operates old-time equipment, and has two staging areas, two towns with switching, a turntable, a branch-line to another town, a mining area, and an folded figure-eight twice around the room loop for continuous running. All turnouts are hand-thrown.

The railroad is operated as point-to-point with the turntable serving both ends of the run. During a typical operating session four to five trains are run, picking up and dropping off freight cars at various industries and yards along their route and keeping the train crews busy doing “work” and having fun for 2 to 3 hours.

Scroll all the way to the bottom of this page to see a lot of photos of the layout.

Come and join us sometime!