The Prototype
- Prototypical/Freelanced: Prototype
- Prototype: UP’s Tehachapi Pass
- Location: Bakersfield to Mojave CA
- Era: modern (2010+)
- Interchange: BNSF trackage rights
The Layout
- Location: Vancouver
- Scale: N
- Size: 10ft x 20 ft
- Control: DCC Digitrax duplex radio; WiThrottle/EngineDriver
- Accessibility: 7 stairs and 56” nod-under
- Length of mainline: 3.3 scale miles
- Yards: 2 stub-end yards (9 and 6 tracks), 1 serial staging helix (8 train capacity)
- Passing sidings: 2 sidings and 1 scale mile of double track
- Scenery complete: 1% (mainline mostly ballasted)
- Carspots: 4 (~12 in full plan)
- Motive power: modern diesel (65% GE, 35% EMD, 90% Kato)
- Rolling stock: 400 cars: intermodal, grain, autos, lumber, manifest
- Track construction: mainline: Micro engineering code 55 concrete tie with hand-laid turnouts; yards: Peco code 55 flex & turnouts
Operations
- Clock Speed: 5:1
- Session Length: 2.5 hours
- Crew Size: 5-6
- Dispatching: CTC (in development)
- Car Forwarding: tabs for locals, none for through freights
- Communication: in development
- Jobs: dispatcher, staging manager, road crews, pusher crews
- Train lengths: 30-40 60 ft cars (12-16 actual feet)
- Session atmosphere: casual, fun
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