The Prototype
- Prototypical/Freelanced: Prototype
- Prototype: Canadian Pacific Railway
- Location: Southeastern British Columbia Boundary & Slocan areas
- Era: 1961/1962
- Interchange: Great Northern, & CPR lake barge operations
The Layout
- Location: Coquitlam
- Scale: HO
- Size: Room size irregular; approximately 1200 sq ft.
- Control: Base LENZ system with CVP wireless throttles
- Accessibility: Fully accessible
- Length of mainline: Current =400 ft, Ultimate = 540 ft
- Yards: Nelson Divisional yard, Rossland Subdivision staging yard, Proctor/east staging, & a temporary west staging
- Passing sidings: 8
- Scenery complete: 10%
- Carspots: constantly increasing due to construction
- Motive power: Primarily Fairbanks Morse diesel units, with a few others
- Rolling stock: A whole bunch
- Track construction: Micro Engineering flextrack and modified Shinohara turnouts – all code 70
Operations
- Clock Speed: 2.7:1 GML Enterprises
- Session Length: approximately 3 to 4 hours
- Crew Size: estimated at 9 to 10
- Dispatching: Dispatcher with TT&TO
- Car Forwarding: 4 position waybills & car cards
- Communication: VTech cordless phones
- Jobs: Jobs; Dispatcher, Nelson yard master & switch crew, East staging Yardmaster, several road crews.
- Train lengths: 10 to 22 cars
- Session atmosphere: Sunny!
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