This is my father's loco, Clan MacKinnon, made for him by John James.

In reality, my first choice modelling era is the 1920's and the layout is designed to be backdated at some point. Here is a taster.

Most of the station visable in this shot, as a class 27 pulls away past the up shelter. This would in reality be a bit swanky for a station like Portchullin. It was borrowed from Simon de Souza and is a model of the upshelter at Killiecrankie.

A rare event, some shunting in the yard; watched over by my father!

I hope the passengers do not notice the hand of god pointing out Peter Bond's fabulous signal box in the background!

If it weren't for my son's arm poking over the top of the backscene, you could probably hear the noise as 26 046 pulls out of the station.

The bridge started as a Wills vari-girder kit, but with additional flanges between the sections and scratchbuilt abutments. Bridges are big, we fail to realise this as this is only really a tiddler but dwarfs the locomotive.

The sea has been made with crumpled cellophane laid over a black card base. It is trapped in place with toughened glass.

A sparklingly clean class 25, it won't stay like that for long in the north of scotland!

27 005 was bought weathered by Making Tracks in the Sun - via ebay. not a bad buy as the weathering is just right for a neglected Sulzer!

A busy moment at Portchullin.

I think the footbridge is the signature of the layout. It has been made from a Lochgorm Models kit - not easy but worth it.