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Layout Specifications
From SPCoast
[edit] Prototype Background
- Railroads
- Southern Pacific
- Union Pacific
- ACE
- Caltrain
- Era
- Modern era, conceptually soon after UP's merger with SP
- Location
- From San Jose/Tamien North thru Santa Clara/Newhall Yard, thence up the peninsula towards San Francisco (Caltrain) and up the Mulford line to Newark Yard/Niles (UP/SP)
- Passenger Operation
- Caltrain Commuter trains<
- Occassional AMTRAK Capitol Passenger Operation
- Occassional ACE Passenger Operation
- Freight Operation
- Through freights to/from LA/Oakland
- Basic Industrial Switching out of Newhall Yard
- Transfer runs between Newhall and Newark Yards
- Gravel train from Sargent
- Redwood City Turn
- Garbage train from SF
- Permenente Cement Turn
- MOW Operation
- CalTrain Peninsula Corridor Electrification
- UP/SP track maintenance along Mulford Line
- Modeling Background
- Main Modeling Interests
- CP Coast at the north end of Santa Clara yard,
- "typical" Peninsula sights (center track sidings, commute traffic)
- Drawbridge community
- Operations
- Automation
- Loconet/CMRI/custom
- Turnouts: LocoIO/Chubb SMC
- Detection: Optical & current detection
- Control: LocoIO panels && JMRI CTC
- Operators
- Designed for up to 4 operators, but (with computer control) operable by just one.
- Track Design Software
- Track Standards
- Mainline
- Radius 28"
- Grade 1.5%
- Track Code 83
- Turnout #8
- Sidings and yards
- Radius 24"
- grade 1.5%
- track Code 70
- turnout #4-#6
- Staging
- radius 28"
- grade 1.5%
- track Code 100
- turnout #6-#8
- Roadbed
- 45 degree .250 Homabed and/or 1/2" Homasote
- SubRoadbed
- 1" Masonite Spline or 3/4" Plywood
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