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
Photo Gallery
Click photos to enlarge