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Voodoo Railroad 2.0

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Set some time in 1986, this layout is a mix of a free lanced swamp logging railroad, and my own personal "Voodoo Railroad". This should provide you both some fun switching, logging operations, and a good bit of frustration. Sorry, not sorry about that.

History:

The Voodoo Railroad was a narrow gauge swamp logging operation built somewhere in the Louisiana Bayou in the late 1800's. The railroad stayed in that form until around WW1, when the company scrapped the narrow gauge operation in favor of standard gauge. By 1920, the Southern railway had purchased the Voodoo railroad, though it was allowed to operate independently. The railroad wasn't just a logging railroad, however. It also found a service in disposing of dredged materials offloaded from barges. Eventually, that traffic would blossom into a concrete and sand production facility, while the sawmill would expand and start providing creosote pressure treated beams and logs. By 1986, the branch was facing abandonment, when a group of investors stepped in and purchased it, lock stock and barrel from the Southern railroad, and started independent operations. The railroad did turn a profit, though it was minimal at best, forcing them to keep running smaller trains, and downsizing considerably. It would be another twenty four years before an ethanol plant would be built, and the railroad taking over delivery for it. That introduction allowing the small suffering branch railroad to grow well beyond its humble origins.