Kalamazoo Model Railroad Historical Society
KMRHS - Layout Photos
The Society's permanent layout, the Cooper Park & Eastern, is a mythical railroad named after Cooper Township, the location of the Clubhouse. The time modeled is 1960 to allow the prototypical inclusion of steam locomotives as well as diesel. The layout was started the early 70's soon after the building was completed. The layout was substantially completed about 10 years later, though it has been under continuous improvement and expansion since. It is modeled in HO scale and there is just over 212 actual feet of track on the main line. The layout, orginally DC, has been completely re-wired for Digital Command Control and more than 6 trains can be running on the layout at one time. The CP&E is imagined to have strong ties to both the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads, so you will see a lot of equipment lettered for them as well as for the CP&E.
(Click on a thumbnail photo or underlined text to see the photo)
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| Cooper Park Maintenance Yard |
Cooper Park Station |
City Street |
Switching at Bret's Brewery |
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| Chambersburg bridge |
Baxter Chemical Plant |
Keeler switching |
Keeler coal tower |
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| Break time |
Coaling up at Keeler |
Fishing at Keeler |
When the RDC ran through Keeler |
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| Celebrity at Franklin Station |
The Franklin Union Hall |
The Salt Lick Lumber Company at Franklin |
Honey Bear Foods at Silver Creek |
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| Leroy Station |
Construction at the Leroy overpass |
Lower Leroy |
Riverside warehouse at Cooper Heights |
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| A sad day at the Keeler cemetery |
Swift Meat Processing at East Franklin |
Cooper Grains at Cooper Park |
The Cooper Park yards |
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| Across the Cooper Park yards you can see Cooper Heights in the distance |
Paper mill warehouse and power plant at Chambersburg |
Power station and chemical dock at the KVP paper mill in Chambersburg |
Receiving at KVP in Chambersburg |
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| Backyard fun at Chambersburg |
A labor gang doing maintenance on a Chambersburg road |
The power plant at Cooper Heights |
Riverside at Cooper Heights |
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| The cantilever bridge at Cooper Heights |
Downtown Cooper Heights |
Upttown Cooper Heights |
Industry at Cooper Heights |
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| The backstreets of Cooper Heights |
Cooper Park is visible beyond the Riverside warehouse |
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