Virginian and Ohio

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The Virginian and Ohio is both the name of a fictional railroad company created by W. Allen McClelland and the HO scale model railroad he built featuring this railroad. The V&O is famous in the model railroading world for being the first famous freelanced (fictional) model railroad designed to operate in a prototypical manner.

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The original V&O was built in 1962 and was set in the 1950s. The railroad operated from Afton, VA to Elm Grove, VA. In 1980, McClelland began a second phase of construction that expanded the railroad from Elm Grove to Kingswood Junction, VA, and also moved the timeframe of the railroad to 1968. In the late 1990s, the railroad was expanded one final time and was updated to 1975.

In 2001, McClelland moved into a new home, forcing him to dismantle the original layout. The Clintwood section of the layout is currently preserved in the National Model Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, TN. Alan has begun construction on a second V&O in the basement of his current home.