The Sleepy Hollow Railway is a fictitious north-south shortline railroad located in Virginia that interchanges with the other major railroads of the area to provide freight and passenger service.
It mainly moves coal from the mountains to the power plant outside of the town of Sleepy Hollow.
The layout is designed to be as generic as possible, to allow for flexible operating sessions. It is common for operating sessions to be modern era one week, and then 50-60's era for the next operating session.
The layout is physically located in Northern Virginia, and is a member layout of the Bull Run Hi-Railers.
In February of 2011, myself and the other former members of the Bull Run Railroaders club formed a new club called the Bull Run Hi-Railers of Northern Viginia. Without a permanent location to operate, we deciided we would hold operating sessions at each others home layouts.
At that time my layout was not up to the task of hosting an operating session, so I made the decision to tear down my existing version of the Sleepy Hollow Railway, and rebuild it so that it would provide a more suitable place to host operating sessions for the newly formed Bull Run Hi-Railers club.
In the process, I moved the setting of the layout from a western railroad to an eastern coal hauler, to provide a better fit with the clubs operating sessions.
After a year of construction, the layout is almost complete.
