Layout Specifications…
- Railroads – Garden State Northern (Mainline) and Otter Creek & Perry (Branchline)
- Space – Approximately 40’X30′
- Gauge – HO
- Style – Walkaround
- Electrical Systems – Both North Coast Engineering Digital Command Control (Radio Equipped) and conventional DC using MRC CM20 power packs
- Signaling and Detection System – Dr. Bruce Chubb’s C/MRI (Computer/Model Railroad Interface)
- Prototype – None (several prototypical sections and structures from New Jersey and Pennsylvania)
- Viaduct based on that found in Great Notch, NJ
- Passenger Terminal based on CNJ Terminal in Jersey City, NJ
- NJ Zinc Mine, based on the structure in Ogdensburg, NJ
- Industrial Scene based on Norristown, PA
- Mainline
- Double track with crossovers (can be used as single track with sidings at any time)
- Code 100 nickel silver flex-track (used for durability, electrical conductivity, etc.)
- 275 feet, approximately 4.5 HO scale miles
- Hand-Layed Trackage
- Crossovers at BOB Tower
- Gauntlet wye switch on the Concrete Arch Bridge
- Curved diamonds in Otter Creek
- Curved crossover at Soggy Bottom
- Bridge deck on our steel Viaduct
- Yards
- Albatross Yard (7 through tracks, 2 stub ended tracks)
- Hidden Staging Yard (6 through tracks, 5 stub ended tracks, reverse loop)
- Middletown Yard (4 through track division point yard)
- Altoona Yard (10 stub ended tracks)
- Notable Scratchbuilt Structures
- Backdrops – All hand-painted by Pete Kieran and Paul Dlugos
- Equipment/Era – Any and all (whatever our members want!)
