Bruce Chubb is an American
model
railroader, and a retired electrical engineer. Since the 1940s,
he has been creating layouts called the Sunset Valley Lines. The
first Sunset Valley was a
Lionel tinplate layout on a tabletop. In 1954, he
started work on a basement-filling freelance railroad in an
ambiguous geographic setting. Set in 1950, the HO scale railroad
theoretically interchanged with
Frank Ellison's Delta Lines,
Whit Towers' Alturas &
Lone Pine, and Ned Browne's Durand & Irish Grove. It was for
this layout that Chubb developed, in the 1980s, the C/MRI (Computer
Model Railroad Interface), one of the first applications of digital
electronics in model railroading. In the 1990s, Dr. Chubb began a
new Sunset Valley, the
Sunset Valley Oregon System, a 55
foot by 60 foot multi-deck layout set in the Pacific Northwest.
Sunset Valley has been extensively aired over the years in Model
Railroader magazine, and was the subject of three feature articles
in the March 2007 issue of
Scale Rails, two by
Bruce himself, and one by his wife of over half a century, Janet
Chubb (herself a skilled model railroader).
Chubb is also the
author of
How To Operate Your Model Railroad.