RIVENDELL

The Brandywine River bridge takes the railroad into Rivendell. The elves abandoned Rivendell after the War of the Rings. Men moved into the town and it has become the Lake Town & Shire interchange with the Middle Earth Railroad, the Rivendell and Midlands, and the Dunland and Rohan Great Western.

A one-stall wooden engine house at Dale was replaced by a fine brick two-stall engine house at Rivendell.

In front of the engine house stand a water tower and coaling platform to service locomotives at Rivendell.

The Lake Town & Shire is double-tracked from Rivendell to Bree. At Rivendell, three sidings serve Elf Distributing, Misty Mountain Textile Mill, and the interchange.

Rivendell station lies between the tracks and the East Road connecting Rivendell to the Shire. Behind the station are three mill houses occupied by workers at the textile mill.

The mill houses are modeled after real mill houses in Athens, Georgia.