Jaques -- I

To the left of the Sunkist lead, the main line runs through the railroad location of Jaques, named for model railroader and nature painter Francis Lee Jaques. Jaques was also responsible for many of the nature dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History. He built a pioneering model railroad, the Great North Road, which was featured in the May 1962 Model Railroader. This layout has been reassembled and restored in a special building in the Minnesota Mining Museum in Chisolm, MN.

Here is the current state of the railroad location Jaques on my layout.

In the far left distance is the East Terrible Mill, which is operationally and conceptually related to Jaques. I'll be recording the progress I want to make in this area in the next several posts.