Cuinn Industrial Park& Browntown
Entering Cuinn, from Bradley takes you through a tunnel that will send you to Browntown and Williamsburg. Cuinn is the home of a blast furnace and several small industries.
In 2003, the "Browntown" addition was started, increasing the layout by another 100 sq. ft., which includes 2 towns, a large blast furnace facility and several more industries. This addition was made in order to keep the sanity of the operating crew of the CV&W RR. Hank Brown was noted for his desire to improve and upgrade layouts. In order to eliminate the constant desire to change track directions and switches, we knew there needed to be another addition where Hank could be creative and would leave the rest of the layout alone, so we could continue with our operating session. The addition of "Browntown" did give us additional industries and interesting switching. Browntown was also considered, by some, to be a switching nightmare.
Cuinn Industrial Park locations
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Cuinn's Industrial Park is the home of the blast furnace and lead into the layouts very industrial area.
Busy workers
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You need to look very closely behind the rising ore car track to see the workers painting the adjacent building on the scaffolding.
Merging of Industry-Connecting Cuinn to Browntown
Merging of Industry-Connecting Cuinn to Browntown
Merging of Industry-Connecting Cuinn to Browntown
Like many cities you can't tell where one ends and the next begins.
Road Construction
Merging of Industry-Connecting Cuinn to Browntown
Merging of Industry-Connecting Cuinn to Browntown
We never did put up the sign in Browntown that said "Road Out", mainly because we had wanted to extend the road to the edge of the layout, but we found that it would interfere with operating the layout, so we just left it hanging in mid air. We did put a mirror at the wall end, so at least it looks like it may go somewhere.
Browntown
Use of Mirrors
Childhood Antics
Childhood Antics
We used a lot of mirrors on this layout to add more depth to the layout. We did have some engineers that actually thought they had more backing room then they really did.
Childhood Antics
Childhood Antics
Childhood Antics
We had many interesting scenes on the layout, some inspired by youthful antics.
Depth of Scenery
Childhood Antics
Dealing with Corners
Browntown was a switching nightmare from the time it was first built until 2008. We kept Hank Brown in that area so that he wouldn't make any more changes elsewhere on the layout.
Dealing with Corners
Entrance to Browntown
Dealing with Corners
Yes, more mirrors, but nicely hidden roads. It also gave engineers the ability to seem behind the buildings to pick up cars.
Commerce Park
Entrance to Browntown
Entrance to Browntown
In the Commerce Park there is a special memorial to my late husband, H. Hampton Rothwell, who passed away in 2009. Without his dream this layout would never have been started.
Entrance to Browntown
Entrance to Browntown
Entrance to Browntown
From Cuinn, trains pass by Browntown into Williamsburg under the McGourd Industries skywalk, which was built over the tracks to connect their two buildings. [Also to detract from the rather large hole in the wall that Barb found one day when a few of her friends were supposedly just working on improving the track into the next room.]