The Washington Northern is a freelanced HO scale model railroad set in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State in the mid 1990s. A regional railroad centered in the fictitious large deep water port city of Port Andrews geographically located between the real cities of Port Angeles and Port Townsend on what is Discovery Bay on the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

The specific area I am modeling at this time is the Port Andrews Tideflats District. This version of the WN is a small switching layout in a spare bedroom of my new home. A former version housed in a 23' x 32' room depicting the Coast Subdivision in my old home was dismantled in 2005.

While I miss the long mainline runs of the old layout, the new, smaller version of the WN has allowed me to make progress much more rapidly, while adding more detail and getting up and operating in a reasonable amount of time.

I hope you enjoy your visit to my version of the far Northwest corner of the US.