Jack Huffman's Garden Railroad
G Scale

The Huffman Railway dream started in 1993 when Joyce bought the first LGB starter train. Following several moves, the Huffman's finally settled in their current location and ground was broken October 2017. Due to space limitations, the layout is a split dog bone with two long loops, six sidings, and a hidden five-track railyard, consisting of 677 feet of track with 40 switches which make a very challenging operation. Our six LGB locomotives and the forty switches are battery powered and controlled remotely with RailPro. The Huffman's theme represents two small towns in old west Texas from 1870’s to 1910’s when cattle ranching was becoming a big business. Beef was in high demand in the eastern part of the USA and the only way to meet the demand was to drive cattle to railheads north of Oklahoma. It is estimated there were several million head of cattle roaming the open range within 100 miles of Fort Worth, Texas. Cattle drives up the Cimarron, Chisolm and other trails took a longtime and the danger level was high. Therefore, people of Fort Worth decided to build large stock pens for the cattle and build connections to the northern railroads. Shortly afterwards the Armor and the Swift companies built large meat packing facilities for supplying the beef demand to the large populations in the east. The Fort Worth Stock Yards gained the moniker as the Wall Street of the West, the richest per capita city in the world, and Fort Worth became Cow Town, USA.