Here’s my contribution to the R&GN Speeder Reconstruction Project. I was the last guy to get started, so Steve Bennett and Ian Holmes both had a week’s head start on me.

The railcar is a freelance design based on No. 9 of the Santa Maria Valley RR in California. It’s designed to look “at home” on either side of the Atlantic.

This little trammer was the result of a snowy weekend in January 2002. Trapped in the house, I foraged for a little Gn15 loco to build, and found a photo of an Atlas Type H Storage Battery Loco. A perfect basis for a freelance trammer!

Nothing says “Narrow Gauge” better than a string of beat up, rusted out skips rattling along at 5 mph behind a tiny critter locomotive. In Gn15, that scene is easy to create! The Sidelines Gnat is a perfect critter kit - and the skips are an easy kitbash using a Sidelines Models chassis and a Gnomy toy “ore car” (skip).

It all started with a creation by Emrys Hopkins in response to a challenge raised on the Small Layout Design mailling list. Emrys is fond of making designs with three-way turnouts and double-slip switches. Tiny Knotter Yard was no exception!

Mosca was the first known scratchbuilt Gn15 locomotive (I made her well before ordering a Gnat kit).