Willard Yard Railroad Model, Ohio

This N-scale model railroad layout of the Willard Rail Yard, in Willard, Ohio, built over decades by local resident and former railroad employee Roy Edler, inside his double-wide trailer home in Willard. After it was completed, it was carefully removed, much to his wife’s relief, and installed in an old boxcar, as part of a historic railroad display assembled and maintained by the Willard Historical Society. Rail yards are a common sight across the USA, especially in the flatlands in the midwestern part of the country, around railroad hubs like Chicago and Kansas City. The rail yard in Willard, Ohio is one of CSX’s 70 or so classification yards scattered about the eastern portion of the country, and one of a few remaining hump yards operated by CSX.