Layout Overview
- Name: Missouri-Illinois Railroad, Ste Genevieve Subdivision
- Scale: O scale Proto:48 (track gauge = 1.177 inches)
- Locale: Ozark foothills in eastern Missouri
- Modeling era: mid-1940’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 100 feet single track
- Track: Hand laid code 125 (mains) and code 100 (sidings); flex track in yards
- Industry count: 8 (including transfer boat, interchanges & team track)
- Curve radius minimum: 60 inches with easements
- Turnouts: #8 frogs with manual throws
- 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
- Throttle types: ISE ProtoThrottle (for diesel locos) and NCE ProCab R (for steam locos)
- Sound: SoundTraxx Tsunami decoders
- Coupling: Kadee type E (700 series) couplers and magnetic air hoses
- Adherence to operating rules: Loose
- Crew size: 2-6 (engineer, conductor and interlock tower operator)
- Work shift: Typically 2 hours
- Freight management: Switch lists
- Signaling: Only at interlock
- Communications: Vintage line side telephones to interlock tower