Modules: Club Loop - Leopard Creek

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The Leopard Creek module includes a slice of Placerville, by showing the general store, is partly prototypical and partly freelanced. Upon leaving Old Placerville, the track goes through a deep rock cut, passes along under a red sandstone bluff, crosses several small bridges and passes an abandoned mine digging.

The prototype Leopard Creek scene with its road, restaurant and creek crossing. They served as inspiration to build our smaller general store and Bridge 27-A.

The Leopard Creek module completes the Placerville scene where the tracks pass in front of the general store and then crosses Leopard Creek.

The track crosses Leopard Creek on Bridge 27-A and passes the General Store.

Another photo of the prototype Leopard Creek crossing.

D&RGW #461, a K-27 Class "Mudhen", heads a freight past the abandoned mine on the Leopard Creek table .

Locomotive 461 brings another freight onto the Leopard Creek module. On the hillside in the background is a mine tram tower on the Omega Junction module. The layered sandstone strata and steep hillsides are typical in the area around Placerville

Leopard Creek was designed to be a scenery-only table – no additional tracks or significant structures, just room for a train to run through a natural scene. The track goes through a freelanced red rock cut and along the base of a bluff, with two prominent layers of sandstone, typical of the area around this part of southwestern Colorado. The track crosses a dry wash over two small bridges, which were inspired by modeler Harry Brunk. On the Old Placerville end of the table is a prototype scene of Bridge 27-A over Leopard Creek, and a general store.

Bridge 27-A and little bridges scratchbuilt by Chuck Graham

General store built by Paul Kraegenbrink

Rock castings, scenery, and abandoned mine built by Chuck Graham

Backdrop painted by John Scherr

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