Chicago,Peoria & Western 2/7/2018
Owner: John Brennan
Prototype Modeled: Interchange with EJ&E, IC , CB&Q, Reporting Marks: CP&W
Layout Era: Sept. 1940
Theme: Midwestern
Scale: HO
30 x 45 located in a stand alone steel building. Digitrax, simplex DCC. Scenery completed. Operation is TT&TO.
The railroad is an overlay of the CB&Q from Chicago staging to Galesburg staging. There are 23 trains scheduled in a 3 hour session on a 4 to 1 fast clock. Power is almost exclusively steam, most with sound. An 11 person crew is needed for an operating session.
Industries Modeled: Grain and some industries.
Operations: TT&TO. 4 to 1 fast clock. Positions, dispatcher/agent, Aurora yardmaster, Aurora switcher, Kewanee switcher,
Strip coal mine switcher, staging director (mole), 5 to 6 people to operate trains.
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