One night in Spokane

The O scale Pacific Railway & Navigation Co. comes alive after dark

By Kirk Reddie and Mike O’Connell

Welcome to Mike O’Connell’s Proto:48 Pacific Railway & Navigation Co. The prototype was purchased in 1915 by the Southern Pacific, which had acquired controlling interest of the railroad almost a decade earlier. Though businesses saw the value of the coastal timbered rain forests, the wet tunnels and severe rainstorms prompted locals to call it the “Punk, Rotten and Nasty.” PR&N was also known as the Tillamook Line, named for its Oregon terminal. And it is from this point that the fictional history diverges. Mike, the builder of the PR&N, extends the history of the line. His PR&N is a trunk line and bridge route. But over time, the railroad’s owners needed access to western Washington. The PR&N wanted to match the value of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle RR, which was owned…

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Model Railroader (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2022

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