FIFTH ANNUAL
MODEL TRAIN OPEN HOUSE
SATURDAY OCTOBER 8th, 2011

The Dakota Southeastern Division sponsors its fifth annual model train open house on Saturday, October 8, 2011. This year’s lineup features six different layouts in five homes, plus the opportunity to again enjoy the Sioux Valley Model Engineers Society club layout located at the Lyons Fairgrounds. Trains will be running from noon till 5:00 p.m. at all sites.

Rail passes (admission ticket) along with directions and maps for the self-directed tours will be available at Hobby Town USA, located at 1007 West 41st Street in Sioux Falls, beginning on September 10th. Individual passes are $5.00. A family pass is $10.00. Passes are good for all sites.

Below is a brief description of each railroad on our 2011 open house tour. All aboard!

Jay Manning's award winning N-scale Beer Valley modular layout is highly detailed with scenery, bridges and buildings. Hundreds of vehicles and hand-painted figures can be found on this layout. In addition, the Dakota Southeastern Division’s own modular layout will be at Jay’s residence to add another attraction at this site.

DSED's Modular HO Scale Layout

Jay Manning's Beer Valley

Chad Boese’s HO early remnant of the Deadwood to Piedmont line in South Dakota includes steam and early diesel traction power. Here’s your chance to see a layout under construction as well as see scenery in progress. There are sound equipped locomotives that traverse three bridges, a working “Y,” and an operating turntable. Mining, box and barrel manufacturing, and a cattle collection point are among the industries that ship on this compact 5 x 13’ layout built on portable benchwork.

Mike Kaufman’s Burlington Northern Sante Fe Marshall Subdivision. This full basement sized layout features HO modern day freight car operations based on the prototype which operates from Garretson, South Dakota to Willmar, Minnesota. There’s lots of detail and realistic modeling of industries along the way, including rock loading at Granite Falls, the corn syrup plant and other industries at Marshall, industries at Pipestone and the yard and other trackage at Garretson.

Jim Krekelberg's C&NW Freelance layout is is a freelanced C&NW based N-scale modern era multi-level layout. Operational, while under construction.

Sioux Valley Model Engineers Society club layout at W.H. Lyons Fairgrounds. This HO scale layout fills nearly the entire building and operates multiple trains in both directions on two levels. There’s lots of detail to delight and entertain the viewer and has been a regional favorite for years. Much work has been done during the last year to upgrade and change sections of the layout.