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A joint project of Steve Davis, Tom Vanden Bosch, and the Friends of the KCS
This layout was created by many contributors. Many are named below, however there are some whom I may have inadvertently left off. If you are one of those, please email me and I will add you.
- Steve Davis: Track plan and overall design, operations schema, CTC system.
- Tom Vanden Bosch (NMRA national award winning modeler): Most buildings, bridges, rolling stock, prototype research and guidance.
- Carey Stevens: Carpentry, town and spur layout, buildings/industries & bridges, trackwork.
- Kevin Mclarty: Tracklaying, buildings.
- Mendy Davis, Erica Holeman, Marian Vanden Bosch: Painting, Backdrops, Scenery
- Carl Schorfheide: Benchwork design and lead carpenter.
- Marc Montray: Track standards, local operating insight, track repairs & tuning.​
- Jay Hastings: Trackwork and roadbed.
- Norm Beveridge: Design and operations guidance and consultation.
- Bob McNabb (former dispatcher, BNSF): Chief Dispatcher, dispatching and signaling system consultant.
- Frank W. Bryan: Information on train consists, work and schedules for the period modeled, detailed prototype track diagrams, support and inspiration.
- Dave Salamon: support, construction, tracklaying, scenery, benchwork, lighting, painting & more.
- Gene Brooks: Rolling stock standards, tuning, repair.
- Sammy Carlile: Decoder installation, locomotive and rolling stock weathering, locomotive detailing.
- Steve "Doc" Campbell: Rolling stock tuning, maintenance & standards; buildings, locomotive and rolling stock weathering and decals.
- Steve "Razor" Gillett: Tracklaying, track feeders, signals, signals, construction.
- Steve "Sparky" Grober: DCC busses, signals, turnout wiring, loconet, network and control panel wiring, carpentry.
- Steve "Hollywood" Whiteside: Lead tracklayer and roadbed, tortoise installation, track painting, physical signal installation, heavy and light carpentry, painting.
- Dale Baker: Construction, bridges, buildings, painting, town and spur layout and arrangement.
- Glenn Blanchard: Construction, wiring, painting.
- Joe Duncan: Construction, carpentry, painting, control panel installation,.
- Mike Blaylock: Carpentry, roadbed, tracklaying, painting, 3D printing (including design of control panel holders & signal mounts).
- Kit Dixon: Carpentry, painting,
- John Pansius: tracklaying, roadbed.
- Zack Hilton: Heavy carpentry, roadbed, track, painting, prototype & operations consultant, painting, DCC, rolling stock work.
- Terry Jenner: Operations help, general modeling, painting.

SB train heading into siding at Stillwell (note red over yellow "Diverging Approach" signal).
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