Statistics on Fred Kaser's Layout: Area - 18' X 28' Handlaid code 70 rail Single level benchwork Scale: On2 Control system: Easy DCC Scenery: about 20% Operating system: Protrak The Willamette & Western is a Western Oregon shortline interchanging with the standard gauge at one end and extending through a range of hills into an agricultural area and then on to a big sawmill at the other end. The time frame is 1917. There is one branch line into the mountains for the sawmill and another branch serving a mineral springs resort area.