Telling History with Model Train Layout Villages

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Bob Lanning and I’m here to tell you about how we’re making model villages. We’re going to show you one of the trains that ran from one of the smelters in Cottonwood, there was two major smelters, this was called the Clemenceau Smelter, we’re going to show the engine coming from that. It was one of the eight railroads in this area serving the mining industry. This particular train was for the Arizona Extension Railroad, that came from the Clemenceau Smelter and that, that train ran around into Clarkdale where the loads of ore were transported over to another train to go up the Santa Fe Railroad, up to Ashfort where it was taken onto the main line which was along through Flagstaff. This particular locomotive’s a commercially available model which we have detailed to represent the Arizona Extension Railroad and it’s a very good mining railroad and we have members that built these ore cars and weathered them to look like the ones that were actually being used in that era which was 1950 to about 1938 for this particular railroad. "