The Nutfield Valley Model Railroad Club. .
4th Incarnation of the HO Scale, Nutfield Valley Model Railroad Club. And was built in a renovated chicken coup. After a couple of years the layout was torn down & a second begun in the same location. After many years & changes the Club was forced to abandon the chicken coup after their host, one of the founding members, passed away & the land was bought
by Pinkerton Academy. The club moved to a new location within Derry, & rebuilt a much smaller layout. After several years, their host moved to Maine, & the benchwork & track was donated to a budding Club in Vermont in 2007. The buildings, rolling stock, & engines were divided out based on a sense of nostalgia & who had built them. At this point the Nutfield Valley ceased. My father was a member since 1980, & I'd been a member since 1985. I was in the earliest of planning stages for my own layout, & decided I wanted to continue the Nutfield Valley name. My father & I pooled the salvaged buildings, rolling stock, & locomotives of the Nutfield Valley we'd saved, & I've founded the 4th Generation Nutfield Valley Model RR Club, in Hooksett NH. There has been some significant changes to the idea behind the Nutfield Valley, & I've rewritten the Railroad's fictional history to suite the new design. But the club's rules of ALWAYS HAVE FUN, & DON'T TAKE EVERYTHING SERIOUSLY, are still the order of the day. The new story of the Nutfield Valley RR follows a little something like this, the Nutfield Valley shortline has served New Hampshire & Massachusetts towns on many small branchlines since the early 1900's, & while never huge, they provided quality service & reliabality to an underserved area. In the 1960's the NV entered into agreements with the B&M, MEC, and Ipswich Central RR's, and began to expand to cover routes being shed by the B&M and MEC.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - We hope to have a permanent home soon, and are in the planning stages at the moment. Rolling stock, engines, and structures have been acquired from the old layout and new items are being added and painted on a constant basis. The layout will be a fixed, double deck HO Scale layout in a stand alone building, it will feature operations along the former Boston & Maine lines from Nashua to the North Country now controlled by the fictional Nutfield Valley RR, and also a fictional Coastal line run by the Ipswich Central RR. The layout will feature industrial switching, NV and MBTA commuter trains, Amtrak service, and unit trains of coal and grain, as well as a military railroading aspect. the layout will also have numerous locations where HO Scale modules can be connected to the layout to add extra interest and include Modular Layout builders to participate more fully in the fun!
