Operations

• The club's emphasis is on prototype operations.
• A 4-card waybill system is used to route 25 trains in a typical operating session.
• All operations are controlled by a Digitrax DCC system with up to 8 operators at one time.

Design Principles

• All bench work is cantilevered against standing posts.  There are no support legs at the front on the layout.
• Except for one yard, there is no hidden trackage.
• Grades are less than 1/2 percent over the entire layout.
• The walk-in design has no multi-levels, bridges or duck-unders (except for one to enter the staging yard).
• Except for the town and yard areas, all the track is on spline roadbed made from 1/8 hardboard cut into 1" strips and glued together with wooden spacer blocks.