Overall View - The room is 60 feet long and covers 720 square feet. Track heights range from 42” to 60”.  The mainline run (not including branch lines) is 280 feet, with 1010 total feet (all code 100). Turnouts include 180 manually thrown Peco and 32 motorized Atlas, mostly #5 in yards and industries, with #6 on the mainline.  Staging includes 10 tracks, one of which contains a 42 car ore train, 2 contain space for 26 car mixed freight trains plus engines, 3 contain space for 20 car trains, and 4 contain space for 14 car trains. 

Presently there are 44 engines with decoders installed (8 steam, 36 diesel), 16 of which have sound, and about 500 cars (mostly 40 footers).  Many of the diesels are in consists, one engine of which has sound, so nearly all trains run with sound.

Control is by Digitrax DCC, with wireless radio throttles.  There are 13 power districts protected mostly by Tony’s Power Shield circuit breakers.

The first piece of track was laid in September 1999, the golden spike was driven in January, 2000, and the first operating session was in August 2000. In 2005 we completed our 50th operating session.  This year (January, 2008) we completed our 80^th operating session. 

There are over 175 buildings & Structures, mostly kitbashed, some straight kits, some scratchbuilt.  Benchwork is ½ inch plywood on 1 x 4 frames in towns, risers on grades.  Roadbed is cork on ½ inch plywood.  Scenery construction is joint compound over screen wire, with plaster rock formations.  The backdrop mountains are pastel chalk on painted drywall.  The city backdrops have cut out Walthers Instant Horizons and cut out pictures of buildings from kit boxes.  The maximum grade is 2.1 percent.  Minimum radius is 24 inches. 

The date is April 1, 1954.