My layout started with an Iain Rice plan, the Lilliput Logger. This formed the basic track plan for the peninsula. The port area is another Iain Rice plan called the Loleta & Mad River. A track plan evolved to join the two together. Because I loved Bob Hayden's Thatcher's Inlet, I included Sam Cahoon's Fishhouse and Fish-Head Fertilizer (both scratch built). As my railroad progressed, I read too many MR's and wound up with the gnawing feeling that my railroad had no history or bases in fact, what to do? Ah, the internet. Since Iain Rice drew from the Arcata and Mad River Railroad for his Loleta & Mad River plan, I started there. I stumbled upon the California & Oregon Coast Railroad Co. Founded in 1911 by the city of Grants Pass to connect with a 1906 - constructed, 15.7 miles long logging railroad, the Crescent City and Smith River Railroad. The rails only made it 15 miles west before it went into receivership. Perfect, I can make up my own railroad, oh thats what I had already done!
