The Hills Line is an eight-mile industrial spur of the Iowa Interstate Railroad serving the eastern Iowa towns of Iowa City and Hills. This HO Scale version replicates the practices, policies, and procedures found on the prototype to provide guests and operators a flavor of real-life railroading.
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Stutsman Warehouse: The Roof
I was never good at math. The rest of the subjects I had no problems with, but math was always an issue. When I started my undergrad and my advisor told me I had tested well enough to take calculus but only needed a single course in business math* to meet the degree requirements, I … Continue reading Stutsman Warehouse: The Roof
Stutsman Warehouse: The Walls
I really should buy stock in Rix Products, Inc. The sheer number of their products I’ve used on The Hills Line dwarfs anything else I’ve bought, short of benchwork. That number continues to grow thanks to the construction of the Eldon C. Stutsman main warehouse and corporate office. After completing the structure core, I started … Continue reading Stutsman Warehouse: The Walls
Fallen Flags
I’m used to life imitating art, but this could be a case of art imitating life. Eight years after I was forced to abandon my version of the IAIS Grimes Line, the Iowa Interstate and Norfolk Southern have formally filed to abandon the real thing. The writing has been on the wall, as traffic levels … Continue reading Fallen Flags
Stutsman Warehouse: The Core
Enough messing around. It’s time to finish up the last blank spot on The Hills Line… the Stutsman Warehouse and Corporate Office. The warehouse itself is a multi-level, multi-structure building that’s interconnected at a variety of angles, all taking up seven feet of linear space, or roughly one-third of the Hills portion of the layout. … Continue reading Stutsman Warehouse: The Core
The Hills Line 