Lone Wolf and Santa Fe Railroad

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"All aboard!" Welcome to The Lone Wolf and Santa Fe Railroad website. Every person who visits this site gets a free Electronic Rail Pass. The pass is good for one e-trip from Los Angeles to Chicago aboard the Southwest Chief. The scenic route starts in San Bernardino, snakes up Lone Wolf Canyon to Wolf Mountain. From the summit it skates across the high desert to Sand Mountain and down to Barstow. Your pass is at the bottom of this page. Enjoy the Scenic Tour. Long time viewers, please check out What's New.

Santa Fe C44-9W
An East bound Athearn C44-9W locomotive and it's helpers wait
at the summit for the pushers at the end of the train to uncouple.


The L.W.S.F. is a HO scale 1:87 working railroad transportation system which was built with walk around operation in mind. It has a schedule, train orders, car cards and waybills which guide you as you walk your train along the layout, up Lone Wolf Canyon and over Wolf Mountain. But there is another side to model railroading other than operation, the artistic side. This includes scenery, lighting, and sound design. At The Lone Wolf and Santa Fe Railroad we believe that model railroading is an art form and like to create scenes on the layout. After all, "All the world is a stage." Along with the detailed locomotives and weathered freight cars, there are hundreds of people and animals, cars, trucks, motor cycles and bicycles. They all play a role in bringing life to this miniature world.

Locomotive Roster

Rolling Stock

Passenger Service

Track plan

**The layout at a glance**
Name	Lone Wolf and Santa Fe
Scale	HO 1:87
Prototype Type	Santa Fe / BNSF
Location	California
Period	1980's - 2000's
Layout Style	Walk Around
Rail Height	56" to 66"
Track	Code 100 flex. #4 and #6 turnouts with hand thrown switches
Minimum Radius	22" Main Line 18" Branch to Orange Groves
Maximum Grade	Ruling grade: 4 percent (the last little climb on the east bound approach) Average grade: 2 percent
Control System	CMI Super Blue Walk Around Throttles Atlas cab selector with blocks
Benchwork	Cookie cutter tabletop on open grid
Scenery Base	Cardboard skeleton covered with plaster soaked paper towels
Landscape	"Lifelike" Earth sprinkled on wet latex paint "Woodland Scenic" ground foam and trees
Backdrop	Hand painted mountain ranges on sky blue walls, Blue and white lights on white walls
Lighting	Incandescent track lighting with colored bulbs on separate dimmers
Sound	City Sounds Ambient Background CD's at several different locations
Locomotives	Athearn, Atlas, Walthers,
Rolling Stock	Accurail, Athearn, McKean, MDC Roundhouse, Roco, Tyco, Walthers,
Passenger Service	Amtrak's Southwest Chief, Southern California's Metrolink
Operation	Car Card system, scenic staging yard
Influences	David Barrow's Cat Mountain & Santa Fe W. Allen McClelland's Virginian & Ohio Eric Brooman's Utah Belt


ERA What year is the railroad set in? Most model railroaders can tell you a year or even a month or a day which they recreate. The Lone Wolf and Santa Fe is set in the modern day, however we are just a little bit stuck in the 80's and 90's if you know what I mean. (You can still find F45's in front of a lash and SD40-2's in the Kodachrome livery.) The time of year changes depending on the location. Seasons change along the route with the elevation. It's summer in the desert and winter in the mountains and somewhere in-between all along the way. Some scenes represent holidays, including The Fourth of July, Halloween, and Christmas.

Animal Control

Domestic

Cats	11
Dogs	11
Cattle	8
Chicken	1
Elephant	1
Horses	22
Lions	1
Pigs	6
Sheep	26
Total	87

Wild

Bears	1
Cougars	2
Coyotes	1
Deer	4
Fish	4
Frogs	3
Mtn.Goats	4
Opossum	2
Rabbits	2
Rattle Snakes.	2
Sasquatch	1
Sharks	2
Total	28

Insects

Butterflies	2
Tarantulas	2
Total	4

Census
People
Population: 564 (actual figures on layout as of 12/28/2006)

Department of Motor Vehicles

Ever since The California Highway Patrol arrived on the layout, strict vehicular code enforcement has been applied. There are numerous motor vehicles of all shapes and sizes and they all must meet a certain standard.


	Meet Hobo Joe! He is a colorful character who rides the rails for free. He is not a bum, he is a railroad enthusiast and likes to travel in style. He loves the simple things in life, like eating a meal cooked over an open fire and sleeping under the stars each night while he sees the country.


This is your free electronic rail pass! Please right click and save the image, enter your name and date using your paint program. Place the pass on your website as a site you have visited and link back to us at http://trainweb.org/lonewolfsantafe Click on the Arrow pointing east to begin the scenic tour. Click East-> on each page to get a grand tour of the railroad as it heads east up over Wolf Mountain.

Take the Scenic Tour. Visit areas of the layout from West to East. They include industries and holiday scenes.

Along the Line - *Scenic Route* - **LWSF RR**
Start the Scenic Tour by heading East ->>> Berdoo	West Side	North End	Foothills	Wolf Mountain	Sand Mountain	High Desert	*coming* *sooner or later* Barstow