Steve Nelson's
MKT Sedalia Division

This layout models the Katy from the Rocheport Tunnel east of Franklin, Missouri to Parsons, Kansas. It will closely follow the MKT prototype track plan and operating practices in the region during the fall of 1966.

The layout is linear with double-ended staging yards. The bench work is 100% complete and 240 feet of mainline track and 220 feet of yard track has been laid. Scenery construction is 25% complete including the Rocheport Tunnel, the Missouri River Bluffs covered with over 900 trees, a corn field with more then 4,500 individual stalks, 1.5 (scale) acres of soybeans, a working drive-in theater, and a scratch-built model of the pony truss bridge at the east end of Franklin.

Trains are now running on the main line which includes crossing the mock-up of the large Booneville lift span bridge over the Missouri River. Recent additions include new track work and structures for a town north of Parsons.

The layout is on the second floor, accessed via stairs.



The topography around Rocheport Tunnel is a scale replica of the real thing! (from highlighted area of the map)



The railroad is never finished!