W. Allen McClelland

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W. Allen McClelland (born in 1934) is a famous American model railroader. In the 1960s, he built the Virginian & Ohio Railroad, a 1950s-era system.

McClelland was an early proponent of staging or layover yards and simulated interchanges. He called this concept "beyond the basement". The V&O embodies this concept very well; it even interchanges with the fictional railroads of his friends, such as Tony Koester's Allegheny Midland. The V&O has been moved forward in time to the 1970s, but the Midland Road (now dismantled) is still set in the 1950s, though operated as a 1970s railroad for quite a few years. Other railroads set in the same imagined universe include Steve King's Virginia Midland (the only one in N scale), Jim Hediger's Ohio Southern, Jim Paine's Durham & Southern and even David Barrow's Cat Mountain & Santa Fe.

The V&O is also the only fictional railroad to have its own historical society.

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