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This page is going to be dedicated to the local live-steam group. The railway is known as "The Trecothic Creek & Windsor Railway", and the group is known as the "Atlantic Model Engineering Society". Background information, pictures, diagrams and that sort of thing will be here as well. Enjoy
The TC&WR track is about a mile in length, complete with grades, a diamond crossing, a double-track steel trestle bridge, several grade crossings and many other interesting features. The ruling grade is 4%, and there are several grades on the track that do reach 4%. Very steep, by prototype standards...most mainline grades range from 0% to about 1.5%. Some are 2%, but it's rare to see a 4% grade anywhere on a Class-1 Mainline.
On site, we've got a couple of old Intermodal containers, one 20-foot high-cube made from a cut-down 40-footer, and one 40-foot regular height can. Both have tracks laid in them, so we can store our many locomotives, riding cars and work materials inside there. Outside the containers are approach tracks. There is a turntable that we can use to hold a locomotive and car, and turn it to match the approach tracks into the containers. Also, the turntable can be raised to match the height of any of the 6 "Steaming Bays" we have, for doing work on locomotives, steam or otherwise, and for putting the fire in steam locomotives in the mornings before we start running for the day. And, since there is only one access track into the 20-footer, and two into the 40-footer, we need a way to get the locomotives from that one track onto the four inside the container. For that, we use a home-made Transfer table. 8-feet in length, it can hold all but our largest locomotive, and move it with relative ease from one track to the other.
We've got mile markers and whistle markers all around the loop, constructed by yours truly...one of our miles is only 220 feet, as opposed to what would be 1:8 scale of the prototype, at 660 feet. I was never exactly clear on why we did this, though I would assume it would be to make the loop seem longer then it really is...a trick model railroaders frequently have to use! With that in mind, our loop starts at Mile 0, and goes all the way to Mile 12.35 (which is actually a foot short of Mile0, since the track is a loop). That gives us a total mainline run just shy of 3000 feet (1KM, a bit better then 1/2 Mile). Not a bad run, all things considered!
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Due to the wet nature of the ground right now, and the fact that most times I work at TCWR, I'm driving or firing, I don't usually have a camera with me, and thus, I have no pictures. I had some on the old computer, but when I moved to my new Dell, I never transferred them. The old PC is buried under a pile of stuff in my closet, so when I dig it out someday, I'll get more pictures. Same for as soon as I can get back on TCWR property without sinking up to my knees in muck, I'll take more pictures. Until then, stay tuned! Track plan is copyright Glen Wallis 2003, used by me two years ago for a promotional poster. The numbers on the plan are the mile markers. The new station is just "Railroad North" of Mile 2. Enjoy!
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