SETTING
1925 freelance
Thorny Point, Virginia at Aquia Creek on the Potomac River to Broadway and Stanley, Virginia via White Hall, Virginia
BENCHWORK
16x18 two level point-to-point
Lower level is 42" to 46" high and 16" to 24" deep open frame "L" girder
Upper level is a 60" high 12" to 16" deep shelf on dual channel shelf brackets
Roadbed is cork on ½" homasote on ½" plywood
TRACK
139 feet of mainline track with 83 switches
Minimum mainline radius 24"
Maximum mainline grade 2.5%
Atlas code 83 flex track
Micro Engineering code 83 bridge track
Walthers code 83 switches
Tortise machines on the mainline between White Hall and Swift Run
Caboose Industries' manual ground throws everywhere else
CMR turntables
CONTROL
Digitrax DCC with radio
Soundtraxx and Digitrax decoders
SIGNALING
Lower quadrant Tomar semaphores between White Hall and Swift Run and two position color lights in Brooke at the RF&P interchange
Oregon Rail Supply two light dwarfs on mainline switches between White Hall and Swift Run with an IHC signal bridge at Hood
Semaphores between White Hall and Hood are manually controlled to simulate a manual block system
Semaphores guarding the helix and the RF&P interlock are controlled by a Digitrax SE8C board connected to a computer running JMRI software and a JYTHON scrip
Train detection is via Digitrax BD4 and IRDOT-2DEWs
SCENERY
Gypsolite over plaster casting wrap over cardboard strips or foam sheet.