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Layout:-

Name: Morgan Falls & Little Trinity Pulp and Timber Co. (MF&LT)
Scale: HO
Gauge: Standard
Prototype: Freelance (based on various Wisconsin logging lines)
Region: Upper Wisconsin
Era: Late 1940's, early 1950's
Space: 20' x 20' 9" (with restrictions)
Layout Base Height: 47"
Layout Style: Double deck, around the wall, narrow shelves
Depth of Upper Deck: 5"
Separation Between Decks: 20"
Bench work: L-girder, with some open grid
Roadbed: 1" laminated masonite strips (splines)
Track: Peco C75 flex
Turnouts: Peco C75 standard gauge medium turnouts
Minimum Radius: 24" (22" on secondary track)
Maximum Grade: 3.0%
Scenery: Will be combinations of plaster hard shell over foam and cardboard grid.
Backdrop: painted masonite
Control: NCE DCC Command Control System with 2 Dual 10amp Boosters wired into 4 5amp districts
Lighting: Rail Lynx electronically controlled system with day/night transition
Minimum Aisle Width: 42"
Typical Operating Crew: 2-3

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Emphasis:-

Interests: (In order of importance)

1. Structures
2. Scenic Realism
3. Mainline running
4. Switching

Operating Priorities: (In order of importance)

1. Medium-Length Freight (10-15 cars)
2. Branch line/Short Passenger & Mixed (3-4 cars)
3. Helper Operations
4. Local Freight Operations
5. Engine Terminal Movement

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Governing Rolling Stock:-

Cars:

-short cars

Locomotives:

Geared Locomotives (Bachman shays, Climax, Heisler) as well as 2-8-0. Maybe 1st generation diesels.

• 3 Bachman 3trk Shays with sound
• 1 Bachman 2-8-0 with sound
• 1 Bachman 4-6-0 hopefully with Sound
• RS-1 (as needed, especially when we want to run as a more modern period late 50's)
• S-1
• Possibly a GP-7

NOTE: Locomotive power coming in from staging will be somewhat bigger as they will probably be CNW and CP unless we move the geography location.

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Operators:-

Robert (Bob) McCord
rbtmccord1@earthlink.net

Peter Kirchhoff
bigcnwnut@yahoo.com

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Room:-

Specs:

• Space: 2 car garage
• Located: Southern California
• Walls: all 96" high, except south wall is 68"
• Dimensions: 20' E-W, 20' 9" N-S

Restrictions:

• cannot use the last 4.5" feet on the west end of that north wall
• southern wall is 68" high, all other walls are 96" high
• north wall (is the upper wall in the diagram below) has 12' of 37" high lower cabinets and counter top and upper cabinets that start at 69" and rise up to 93" and come out 12" from wall and run to 40" from the east end of the north wall. They will probably come out at some point and if not at least one or two could be moved giving another 2-4' of free wall space to that 40".
• west wall is off limits (display case, access to kitchen and washer and dryer)

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