Superintendent:
Bill Gaver Board Chairman: Nancy Gaver
Scale: HO Layout
Size: 27'
x 31' Plus 2' x 20' Staging
- Walkaround
Layout at 52"-58" Elevation
- One Duckunder
to Enter Layout
- Long Mainline:
Operate Several Trains at the Same Time (Freight and Passenger)
- Staging Yard in Adjacent Room
- One Main
Classification Yard with Service Tracks, Roudhouse, Turntable
- Staging
Area Tracks, Passing Sidings, Yard Lead to Handle One Locomotive and
Eighteen 40' cars (10') and/or Seven–Eight Passenger Cars
- Reverse
Loop in Staging to Permit Turning Trains Between Operating Sessions
- Point-to-Point
Loop to Permit Continuous Running
- Main Model
Area: Northeast
- Period:
1941 – Steam and Early Diesel
- Minimum
Radius: 30"
- Turnouts:
Mainline #7, Code 83, Weathered, Pilz/Elite, Yard,
Siding, Spurs #5, Code 83, Weathered, Pilz/Elite
- Turnout
Power: Hankscraft/Switchmaster with RIX II mounting block and micro
switch
- Track:
Pilz/Elite, Code 83, Weathered
- Maximum
Grade: 2.5%
- Interchange
Locations with B&M, Maine Central, and Central Vermont Railroads
- DCC System:
NCE
- Operating
Sessions Accomodate 4-10 people
- Dispatcher/Staging
Operator, Yard Engineer/Hostler, Train Engineers, Brunswick Yardmaster,
Local Crews
- Operating
Priorities
- 18
Car Freight Operations, Engine Terminal Operations, Mainline Passenger,
Passenger Train Switching, Classification Yard, Local Freight Operations
- Communications:
Telephone and Visual Signals
- Freelance
Prototype Practices and Equipment
- Four Industrial
Spurs
- Actual
Towns, Buildings, Businesses Fictitious
- Town
Names: Brunswick, Saxonville, Franklin Junction, Clear Spring, Oxford,
Beaver
Creek, Stoner, Baxter, Middletown, Greenwood
- Except
for Main Yard, Scenery to Track Ratio Favors Scenery
- Scenery
Features Lake/Pond, Streams, Hilly Terrain, and Indigenous Pine and
Deciduous Trees in Two Settings: Summer and Fall
- Land Aquisition
Agent: Lee Gridley
- Branchline:
To Saxonville
- Crew
Lounge and Railroad Artifact Display
- Kit Building,
Loco/Car Maintenance Area (Adjacent Room with Staging Area)
- Storing
Racks for Kits, Resource Library Material
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Enroute to
Brunswick Yard
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