Layout Overview
- Name: Missouri-Illinois Railroad, Ste Genevieve Subdivision
- Scale: O scale Proto48 (track gauge = 1.177 inches)
- Locale: Ozark foothills in eastern Missouri
- Modeling era: 1950’s to mid-1960’s — ie, steam & 1st generation diesel
- Layout size: 36 feet x 24 feet
- Design: Single deck, around-the-walls with peninsula
- Operations style: Point-to-point switching layout
- Mainline run: approximately 111 feet single track
- Track: Mostly hand laid code 125 (code 100 for several spurs); flex track in peninsula yards
- Industry count: 9
- Minimum curve radius: 60 inches with easements
- Turnouts: Manual ground throws; #8 frogs (mainline and yards) and #6 frogs (industries)
- Benchwork type: Mianne unitized frame with ¾ inch Birch plywood sub-roadbed
- Roadbed: ¼ inch Homasote with HO scale ballast
- Track height: 52 inches
- Control system: NCE DCC
- Throttles: ProtoThrottles and NCE Cab 06er throttles (operator’s choice)
- Sound: SoundTraxx Tsunami decoders
- Coupling: Kadee couplers & magnetic air hoses (optional)
- Adherence to operating rules: Loose
- Crew size: Typically 6
- Session duration: 2-3 hours
- Freight management: Car Cards/Waybills with optional switchlists
- Signaling: Semaphores at interlock tower for grade crossing (PENDING)
- Communications: Verbal authority; telephones for clearance at interlock tower (PENDING)