"Howdy Folks! Welcome to the little mining town of Rainbow Ridge, the gateway to Nature's Wonderland"

This is my documentation of my miniature re-creation of the long-gone Disneyland attraction: Mine Train Thru Nature's Wonderland. This is a selectively compressed model railroad, in On30 scale at 5' X 7.5' that has been in progress since September 2005. In May of 2016, I finally got the layout to a point where I declared it "finished".

I started the layout when I was a sophomore in high school with basic skills and over the years the layout has been improved and reworked in drastic ways to match my ever improving model making skills. In fact, since I started rebuilding the sections to better quality and standards, I've actually created a whole new layout, piece by piece.

This is a stand-by basis project without a deadline, so it tends to hit the back-burner a lot due to other things with higher priorities. But whenever I can, I'll give an update when there is something worth talking about. All of my updates since day one are here, which include photos, videos, and plenty of rambling notes and descriptions.








Aerial Model Shots

April 2017



May 2013


February 2012


June 2011

January 2011


April 2010


April 2010 (early)


October 2005

8 comments:

Snow White Archive said...

Just curious Sam, is Nature's Wonderland built atop the 20k "crawl-thru"?

Really enjoying your work. Just became a follower.

January 14, 2011 at 9:24 AM
Sam Towler said...

It is in fact, maximizing space of the table complex! Thanks for following!

January 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM
George said...

You're doing a great job, Sam! May I ask what colors you used for Cascade Peak and the Living Desert buttes?

January 16, 2011 at 1:23 AM
Sam Towler said...

Cascade Peak used warm grays and off whites and the Living Desert used terra cotta, rusty browns, and off whites as well.

February 12, 2011 at 11:31 AM
Unknown said...

Great work! Just a quick question…did you create the train itself or was that a bought item?

February 21, 2011 at 9:35 PM
Balu TR said...

Great Job Sam

June 28, 2013 at 6:36 AM
Unknown said...

amazing work! bravo

June 12, 2014 at 9:23 AM
John Reynolds said...

Truly amazing

May 1, 2016 at 11:45 PM

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