Wimmera Plains

The Wimmera Plains 1950’s - 1970’s in HO Scale

Built by Silvano Marchesini

The Wimmera Plains is a freelance DCC layout, incorporating scenes from throughout the Wimmera region, in Victoria. Silvano has scratch built most of the scenery using some actual plans and measurements to create this wonderful layout over many years.

Locomotives are purchased RTR and fitted with DCC decoders. Rolling stock are mostly kit built by Silvano with some scratch built specialities.

The layout was originally Silvano’s DC home layout which was converted to an Exhibition, DCC Layout with the help of the Grampian Model Railroaders members in Stawell.

The layout uses code 100 Peco track with motorised points operated from 2 Mimic boards and locomotives are operated using NCE - DCC controlers.