The current HO scale layout has been under construction since the fall of 2006 and will take several years to complete.  The layout room is 46 x 20 feet and the layout is an around the walls design with a center peninsula.  The design was competed and construction started in  the fall of 2006.  The main line is a double track loop with a bypass that allows independent running of three trains during display times when the museum is open. The main line is 211 feet long, which converts to 3.45 scale miles.  There will be approximately 600 feet of track and 80 turnouts.  There will also be an HOn30 loop on the left side of the layout that will represent 2 foot narrow gage.

 

All the main line subroadbed, roadbed and track is complete, as well as track in the switching yard and servicing area on the right side and the fishing village and Dragon Products plant on the center peninsula. 

 

Most of the effort has been on the center peninsula. The Dragon Products cement plant and quarry are almost complete, and the fishing village is well under way.  Construction of the yard and servicing areas has started.

 

Controls are a Digitrax Super Chief digital command control with radio throttles. Turnouts are operated by Tortoise switch machines that will be controlled from panels that will be installed in the future.

Created 11-2009

Photo by Ron Spinney