Pete Birdsong lives in Danville, CA, after a move from Lexington, KY, which involved dismantling and rebuilding his layout.
See the videos below for a short tour, or click the LAYOUT TOURS button top right for a photo tour.
Hi. I'm Pete Birdsong. Welcome to the Fernwood Lumber Company (FLC) model logging railroad. It was begun in 2004 and finished in 2009 in a basement in Lexington, KY. It was published in an article in the May/June 2009 issue of the Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette, and in the January 2015 issue of Model Railroader. In 2015 it was dismantled for a move to California, and partially reassembled along one wall in a garage, then moved again a year later, and has been rebuilt in one bay of a two-car garage.
The railroad is in “O” scale, and is a representation of the real Fernwood Lumber Co. Railroad, which existed in Pike County in Southern Mississippi from the late 19th century into the 1930s. The model depicts the time around 1910, before the railroad converted from narrow gauge track (2 1/2 feet wide) to standard gauge (4 feet, 8 1/2 inches wide.)
The link at right will take you to the site for the original FLC layout, which was dismantled.