INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY:
New Glasgow and Pictou Landing Branch 

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Scale:  HO  
Size:   14' X 8', plus 18ft Branch, 12 ft branch, and a soon to be added 14 ft branch.
Prototype:   Canadian National, Hopewell Subdivision, Oxford Subdivision, and Pictou Landing Subdivision.
   
 
Locale:    Stellarton, New Glasgow, Trenton, Granton, Abercrombie and Pictou Landing, Nova Scotia.  Staging is Truro and Sydney, Nova Scotia
Period 1978
Layout style:         Middle Section with Duck Under and Around the wall sections in two rooms.
Layout height:   54" to 57"   Pictou Landing will likely be 52"
Bench work:  Steel Benchwork using C Channel and Steel Studs and 16" shelves with shelving underneath in Abercrombie and Pictou Landing Branch
Roadbed: Cork on 2" styrofoam insulation.  Using Woodland Scenics incline sets for grades
Track:     Atlas Code 83
Turnouts: Peco Code 83 #5's, a few Walthers #5's and Walthers curved turnouts and Walthers wye.
Minimum Radius: 24"
Length of mainline: some changes are underway and I will update when completed 
Scenery:      none yet - will update when underway
Backdrop: Will be painted on walls
Power system Lenz DCC, sound equipped
Operations:      Car cards, 4 sided Waybills,