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Our little railroad world consists of three model railroads: The Sun City Citrus Railroad, The Otter Lilly Railroad, and The New River & Western Railroad
SUN CITY CITRUS RAILROAD
The Sun Citrus Railroad is a G gauge garden railroad located in our back yard at Sun City, Arizona. This is a new railroad adventure, started in February 1997. At the present time we have approximately 150' of track down in a loop about 60'x15' with a short passing siding. Tentative plans call for the railroad to circle two large citrus trees, one at each end of the loop. The town of Big Rock is located inside the loop.
Motive power:
One LGB White Pass & Yukon Diesel w/digital sound
One Bachamnn 2-4-2 Prairie Flyer
THE OTTER LILLY RAILROAD
The Otter Lilly Railroad is an HO gauge railroad in our basement in Indianapolis.
The railroad consists of a seven track rail yard and two main loops. One loop is an industrial loop and the other is a mainline twisted dog bone.
Power is supplied by Zero-1 Command Control
Features of the layout include a 311' wood trestle, a 163' masonry curved arch bridge, designed from the Landwasser Viaduct on the Rhaetian Railroad in Switzerland. A three bay roundhouse and turntable, and three automatic reversing loops.
Motive power:
Athern GP35, SD40, U33, SD45, F-7, DD40
Atlas RS3/4
Oriental Brass GP18
2 Flieschmann 4-6-2 Pacific locos
Flieschmann 2-8-2 Mikado
Mantua 0-6-0T Little Six
Mantua 0-4-0 Shifter
Lima TGV Train
New River & Western Railroad
The New River & Western Railroad is the Sun City, Arizona Model Railroad Club. located at the corner of Peoria Ave. and 107th Ave. in Sun City Arizona, in the Fairway Recreation Center. The layout is approximately 50' x 25' and consists of three main line loops with crossovers between tracks and passing sidings for each line. The layout has about 800' of track which is roughly 13 scale miles. There are three yards, industrial, freight, and passenger. There is a 6 bay roundhouse and operating turntable. The layout has 73 remote operated switches.
The three main lines are on block control with operating signals. The block control system utilizes 27 'Twin T' circuits which allows operation of three trains on each loop.
The room is open to visitors each week day during the fall, winter , and spring months from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM at which time members operate the trains. The room is also open extended hours during holiday periods. Summer hours are variable. isitors are welcome any time the room is open with members present.
You may contact me at:bbatt@prodigy.net