Layout At A Glance

	Layout At A Glance		Details
	Click on parts of the above map to see details on various sections of the layout. The Sheboygan & Western developed into one of the largest and advanced model railroads in the Midwest, employing state of the art technology. Additional features were continually being added. This layout has been dismantled very carefully, preserving as much as was possible. Fortunately we have lots of photos to remember it by. A new layout with all of the same features will rise from the ashes. Double track mainlines, 27 scale miles long, with a number of long spurs created a lot of flexibility for operators A third mainline (we call it the "hidden main" as much of is not visible) wound around ¾ of the layout and lead to the Argentine Staging yard, located below the Proviso Yard, and the Zion Staging Yard below the Passenger Terminal. The two yards were connected, are 60 feet long, and could easily hold 12-40 car trains. Narrow gauge 3' and dual gauge were featured in Sacred Mountain area with a hidden turn-of-the-century town, an interchange, an ore mine, and a logging camp. At a scale 30 MPH, it took 28 minutes (or 2.8 hours in scale time) to navigate the entire layout. The "portal" to the layout Photos and text on this site are © 1977 - 2010 Sheboygan Society Of Scale Model Railroad Engineers, Ltd. All rights reserved. Updated: Friday, December 03, 2010		Scale: HO & HOn3 (1:87.1) Size: 34 X 41 feet - Walk in design Theme: Appalachia to Colorado Period: Steam to Modern Track height: 36" to 58" Scenery 4" to 102" Aisle space 42" Bench work: L girder Roadbed: Homasote on ¾" plywood Track: Atlas code 100 and Micro Engineering code 70 & 83 Turnouts: 154 Peco #8 & #6, 3-way and double slip, all powered by Tortoise machines. Hand laid custom turnouts in mountain area Minimum curve radius: 50" on mainlines, 36" in industrial areas. Length of mainline run: 1650ft Maximum grade: 1% on Mainlines, 2.5% on branches Scenery construction: hard-shell, foam core, & screen wire with plaster Control: Digitrax DCC. Four boosters with a number of sub-districts. Computer dispatch center which also controls APB signaling and automatic train operation. More than 50 signals around the layout. Layout divided into 64 detection zones for use with Railroad & Co. software. Continuous automatic loop operation for open houses - point to point operation during sessions. Locomotives: 150+ steam and diesel, from early 1900s to present. Rolling Stock: 1000+ passenger and freight cars, various eras, most owned by the Society. Metal wheelsets on all. "ON THE GO"

Details

Click on parts of the above map to see details on various sections of the layout.

The Sheboygan & Western developed into one of the largest and advanced model railroads in the Midwest, employing state of the art technology. Additional features were continually being added. This layout has been dismantled very carefully, preserving as much as was possible. Fortunately we have lots of photos to remember it by. A new layout with all of the same features will rise from the ashes.

Double track mainlines, 27 scale miles long, with a number of long spurs created a lot of flexibility for operators A third mainline (we call it the "hidden main" as much of is not visible) wound around ¾ of the layout and lead to the Argentine Staging yard, located below the Proviso Yard, and the Zion Staging Yard below the Passenger Terminal. The two yards were connected, are 60 feet long, and could easily hold 12-40 car trains.

Narrow gauge 3' and dual gauge were featured in Sacred Mountain area with a hidden turn-of-the-century town, an interchange, an ore mine, and a logging camp.

At a scale 30 MPH, it took 28 minutes (or 2.8 hours in scale time) to navigate the entire layout.

The "portal" to the layout

Updated: Friday, December 03, 2010

Scale: HO & HOn3 (1:87.1)

Size: 34 X 41 feet - Walk in design

Theme: Appalachia to Colorado

Period: Steam to Modern

Track height: 36" to 58"

Scenery 4" to 102"

Aisle space 42"

Bench work: L girder

Roadbed: Homasote on ¾" plywood

Track: Atlas code 100 and Micro Engineering code 70 & 83

Turnouts: 154 Peco #8 & #6, 3-way and double slip, all powered by Tortoise machines. Hand laid custom turnouts in mountain area

Minimum curve radius: 50" on mainlines, 36" in industrial areas.

Length of mainline run: 1650ft

Maximum grade: 1% on Mainlines, 2.5% on branches

Scenery construction: hard-shell, foam core, & screen wire with plaster

Control: Digitrax DCC. Four boosters with a number of sub-districts. Computer dispatch center which also controls APB signaling and automatic train operation. More than 50 signals around the layout.

Layout divided into 64 detection zones for use with Railroad & Co. software.

Continuous automatic loop operation for open houses - point to point operation during sessions.

Locomotives: 150+ steam and diesel, from early 1900s to present.

Rolling Stock: 1000+ passenger and freight cars, various eras, most owned by the Society. Metal wheelsets on all.

"ON THE GO"