Scale:  HO

Era:  1985

Key Features:

  • Represents the ICG Alton District between Godfrey and Wood River, IL
  • Mainline is approx. 300 feet of double deck benchwork in a 18' x 28' room
  • Track warrants via Dispatcher on a 3 to 1 fast clock
  • Digitrax radio control throttles
  • Point to point operation via a helix with staging below the lower level
  • Built and operated to facilitate industrial switching
  • Car cards waybill system
  • Each session models one of the three daily 8 hour shifts. Each shift includes 3-4 locals, 3-4 manifest freights, 1-2 grain or coal trains, 1-2 Amtraks, and 1-2 "Slingshot" piggyback trains
  • Conrail has trackage rights and operates its own local serving Winchester, Clark Refining, and interchanges cars with the ICG
  • Burlington Northern has trackage rights to deliver coal to Illinois Power
  • 7 Operators: 1 yardmaster, 3 local crews, 3 road crews  (+Dispatcher)

Scenery: 

  • 1% complete
  • Some structures

Began construction: 2010    Operating Sessions Started:  2012

Owners: Joe & Tony Pellegrino

Pets: N/A

Accessibility: Basement layout with access via steps

Other Notes: Plenty of industry switching; Peavey Mills, Owens-Illinois Glass, Laclede Steel, Winchester Ammunition, Alton Box Board, Amoco Refining, Clark Refining and Shell Refining are the major on-line industries


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