Layouts

The club currently runs four operational HO scale layouts, plus one memorial layout permanently housed in the clubroom.

Current layouts

Exhibition layout

McEvoy Junction

The club's current premier exhibition layout — a rural town, quarry, cattle yards and industrial sidings brought to life with moving detail.

McEvoy Junction exhibition layout with rural town, quarry and industrial sidings
AI-generated image
Under construction

Baldwin Park II

A static "E"-shaped display; trackwork's largely done, wiring's underway.

Kids' U-drive

Charlestown

Four independent tracks built for children, a favourite at community events.

US-style shelf layout

Hy-Brid

Two former layouts combined into one ~8m HO layout with a hidden fiddle yard.

Memorial layout

The Zig-Zag

An Arduino-automated recreation of the historic Lithgow Zig Zag railway.

Older layouts

Baldwin Park, the original layout that preceded Baldwin Park II, gave members without home layouts a place to test locomotives and practise track-laying and scenery skills. Named after Baldwin Drive, itself named after astronomer Joseph Mason Baldwin.