N Scale Layout

Operations on the Delmarva Central

The N Scale Layout, now know as the Delmarva Central, is being set up to accommodate car card and waybill operations. The layout has been revised slightly to create a logical operating schematic, and shippers sidings, and other locations are being labelled and identified according to prototype practice.

The basic operating scheme is a mainline division from Queen Anne Yard ( the upper yard) to Pocomicomico Yard, which is off in the fifth dimension, represented by staging tracks at New Cambridge. The lower yard is called Port Charles, and is the end of the Tidewater Subdivision. This yard services a port facility, and intermodal yard, and interchange traffic to CSX and its predecessors.

The yard at Queen Anne interchanges with Conrail and its predecessors. The Pocomicomico staging tracks represent an interchange with Norfolk Southern and its predecessors.

The Queen Anne Division, which is the modeled portion of the railroad, features 6 towns, and 5 branch lines. Starting at Queen Anne, there are junctions with the QA industrial branch, which will service the industries of Queen Anne, and the QA Terminal Branch, which services warehouses, and other industry.

The next town is Five Points, where there is a junction with the Easton Branch. The Easton Branch will extend to the new extension that is planned. At Five Points, the primary industry is the Redwing Mill and Grain Elevator. There are several other shippers including an 84 Lumber Store.

Next along the line is East New Market, where a cluster of factories can be served by as many as 20 cars.

At Duff, there is a junction with Hudson Branch, which serves a major automobile factory, as well as a warehouse district. Farther up is Louistown where there is a coal mine, and a large lumber mill.

Finally the modeled portion of the railroad extends to New Cambridge, a large city with a belt line railroad to serve its industrial section.


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