SUFFOLK NORTHERN RY.
Reporting Marks: SNR
Era: 1952
Locale: Appalachian coal road, Virginia tidewater to Great Lakes and Ohio River
Prototype: Proto-freelance
Scale: HO
Size: 15x30 feet, plus stacked staging loops
Length of Mainline: 2.5 scale miles (visible)
Completion: Track & all infrastructure 100%, scenery 60%.
Track: Code 83 mainline, code 70 secondary, code 70 and 55 spurs.
Control: NCE, with radio throttles (Cab06r)
Decoders: Tsunami (sound), Lenz (non-sound engines in sound consists), some factory BLI.
Turnouts: 70+, Shinohara
Turnout control: Tortoise, with controls on local and remote panels
Signaling: Color-position (only two in existence yet, controlling staging entry/exit).
Cars: 285, plus passenger and off-layout storage.
Locomotives: 46
Locomotive types: Heritage steam, Atlas RS1's, Stewart F's, Proto E's, Paragon light steam, plus a buncha other stuff. 1st priority is reliable operation, 2nd is prototype fitness, 3rd is detail quality
Operations: Attempt at reasonable prototype fidelity. Trains called by sequence without fast clock.
"Uptight" Level: Non-zero, but mostly laid back.
Orders/instructions: Modified Form 19
Clearance: Verbal from dispatcher
Communications: PBX phone system
LD LMT: 6 + dispatcher
LT WT: 5
NEW: 5-93
BLT: 6-02
IL: 30-0
IW: 15-0
IH: 8-0
EXW: 21-8
CU FT: 4080
Located in: Cincinnati.
Go: Reds.
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