Dr. John Campbell’s Ann Arbor Railroad

Step back in time to the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. The Great Depression has swept over the nation, but the resilient Wabash-affiliated Ann Arbor Railroad continues to soldier on as a connector railroad between Toledo, Ohio and Elberta/Frankfort in Northern Michigan, providing car ferry service across Lake Michigan to ports in Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

This layout, located on the beautiful Old Mission Peninsula, focuses on the Northwest Division of the Ann Arbor Railroad, from Cadillac to car ferry docks in Elberta. Connections to other railroads are in Cadillac (Pennsylvania RR) and Thompsonville (Pere Marquette).

This two and three-level HO scale model railroad focuses on the beautiful scenery of the area, and features the large rail-marine interchange with the Ann Arbor car ferry operation at Boat Landing (Elberta), including an HO scale model of the car ferry Ann Arbor No. 4.

There are several small industries and businesses along the route, and several grades requiring helper locomotives.

Also featured is Railroad Point, the Annie’s lakeside trackage hugging the shores of picturesque Crystal Lake.

The point-to-point layout features Prodigy Wireless DCC and operates with a central dispatcher and train orders with both passenger and freight operations. The scenery for the layout is approximately 20-30% completed and is certainly a “work in progress”.