My model railroad is named the Platte Valley. The setting is northeastern Nebraska in the 1950's. The Platte Valley is an imaginary railroad that runs from Grand Island, Nebraska to Sioux City, Iowa and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. My railroad provides the Union Pacific with access to the Twin Cities. The Chicago & North Western tracks are used between Sioux City and the Twin Cities. I model seven miles of this route. The major town is Battle Creek and the major industry there is the Cornhusker Packing Plant. On the outskirts of town is the Nebraskaland Feed Company. Another town is Winnetoon which is a town of about 100 people. It has a grain elevator, junk yard, coal yard, and oil facility. Elkhorn Junction is an incorporated town that has a team track, an alfalfa dehydrating plant, and the Siouxland Corn Processing Plant. Elkhorn Junction is where the tracks divide going to Sioux City and Sioux Falls and also a branch line to Wakeland. Several passenger trains use this line. The Chicago and North Western line from Omaha to Chadron and Rapid City use this line as their tracks were continually being washed out by the spring flooding of the Elkhorn River.