JonMyrlennBailey
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Can you imagine an outdoor model railroad layout so big it would take up about 423 real-world acres of real estate? My imagination was bigger than Texas when I started cooking up this one in the summer of 2021.
1/10 scale based on a fictitious hemlock forest location in the North American Pacific Northwest. Fully autonomous operating standard-gauge railroad trains, motor vehicles (semi trucks), horse-drawn wagons, motorboats and even a flying Army helicopter!
Here is the Trainzroute (built in N3V Games Trainz a New Era SP4) description as follows:
Location: fictitious place in Pacific Northwest, United States of America. Squatch County, Mondaho (Idaho and Montana combined).
Attractions: Hemlock and pine forests, boating lake, dam and river. Mountains. Canyons. Mesa. Rolling hills. Farmlands. Ranch. Dairy. Sawmill. Logging operations. Rural setting. Small fictitious incorporated town, Prestonville. Recreational camping facility. Hunting scenes. Fishing scenes. Wildlife scenes. Excursion trains through timber country. Horse-drawn carriage rides. Helicopter. Long spiral railroad tunnel through fictitious Pine Mountain Range. Drivable semi trucks.
A few road and railway bridges and trestles. A few surprises.
Fictitious Railroad: Prestonville District, Squatch County Division, Preston Railroad Company
Benchwork Height: 1 meter
Model Transportation Layout: Outdoors, 1/10th scale
Route Actual Area: 422.73 acres, 0.661 sq. miles, 0.661 sections (0.0183 US survey townships)
Length of One Complete Loop of Main Line about the Perimeter of the Benchwork: 1.832 miles, actual
Length of Mesa Branch Line including Extension: 1.375 miles, actual
Pine Mountains RR Tunnel Length, Portal to Portal: 1.898 scale miles, 1002.144 feet (actual)
Prestonville Yard Length: 7,078.50 feet
Yard Lead Length (on each end): 7,295 feet
Yard Wye Capacity: End Bumper to Switch Lever Length - 346.50 feet, doubleheader UP Big Boy locomotives, 2 such engines with tenders coupled back to back
Footnotes: Squatch is short for Sasquatch or Bigfoot, an ape-like animal reputed to have been commonly sighted in these northwestern parts of North America. A 'spiral' tunnel is both graded and curved. A long spiral tunnel is much more exciting and challenging to construct than a short, straight and level one. The perimeter of the benchwork is about the main area of the layout where human spectators observe the attractions of the layout as opposed to staging areas where vehicles and trains are kept hidden for purposes of timed holding and release for occasional travel about the visible spectator area of the layout. The benchwork is the border about the elevated part of the layout with the essential model scenery as opposed to the lower open floor area where human observers walk and stand.
A series of video tours of this grand physically-and-economically-impossible layout in action to follow soon.
1/10 scale based on a fictitious hemlock forest location in the North American Pacific Northwest. Fully autonomous operating standard-gauge railroad trains, motor vehicles (semi trucks), horse-drawn wagons, motorboats and even a flying Army helicopter!
Here is the Trainzroute (built in N3V Games Trainz a New Era SP4) description as follows:
Location: fictitious place in Pacific Northwest, United States of America. Squatch County, Mondaho (Idaho and Montana combined).
Attractions: Hemlock and pine forests, boating lake, dam and river. Mountains. Canyons. Mesa. Rolling hills. Farmlands. Ranch. Dairy. Sawmill. Logging operations. Rural setting. Small fictitious incorporated town, Prestonville. Recreational camping facility. Hunting scenes. Fishing scenes. Wildlife scenes. Excursion trains through timber country. Horse-drawn carriage rides. Helicopter. Long spiral railroad tunnel through fictitious Pine Mountain Range. Drivable semi trucks.
A few road and railway bridges and trestles. A few surprises.
Fictitious Railroad: Prestonville District, Squatch County Division, Preston Railroad Company
Benchwork Height: 1 meter
Model Transportation Layout: Outdoors, 1/10th scale
Route Actual Area: 422.73 acres, 0.661 sq. miles, 0.661 sections (0.0183 US survey townships)
Length of One Complete Loop of Main Line about the Perimeter of the Benchwork: 1.832 miles, actual
Length of Mesa Branch Line including Extension: 1.375 miles, actual
Pine Mountains RR Tunnel Length, Portal to Portal: 1.898 scale miles, 1002.144 feet (actual)
Prestonville Yard Length: 7,078.50 feet
Yard Lead Length (on each end): 7,295 feet
Yard Wye Capacity: End Bumper to Switch Lever Length - 346.50 feet, doubleheader UP Big Boy locomotives, 2 such engines with tenders coupled back to back
Footnotes: Squatch is short for Sasquatch or Bigfoot, an ape-like animal reputed to have been commonly sighted in these northwestern parts of North America. A 'spiral' tunnel is both graded and curved. A long spiral tunnel is much more exciting and challenging to construct than a short, straight and level one. The perimeter of the benchwork is about the main area of the layout where human spectators observe the attractions of the layout as opposed to staging areas where vehicles and trains are kept hidden for purposes of timed holding and release for occasional travel about the visible spectator area of the layout. The benchwork is the border about the elevated part of the layout with the essential model scenery as opposed to the lower open floor area where human observers walk and stand.
A series of video tours of this grand physically-and-economically-impossible layout in action to follow soon.
