The Union Pacific and Summit County is multi deck HO scale layout in a 1300 square foot purpose-built building. Currently only the Summit County Railroad portion is operational which occupies roughly 30% of the space. The Summit County is a proto-freelance railroad based on the UP's Park City branch, hauling coal, ore and livestock. It connects to Union Pacific's double track transcontinental mainline at Echo. The yet to be built portion models Ogden and the Weber and Echo canyon portions of UP's transcontinental mainline.
The operating system is TT&TO with telephones for communication. The sound equipped, primarily steam engine roster is controlled with an NCE Radio DCC system. Freight is forwarded with a CC&WB system and all turnouts are Tortoise controlled. Scenery is roughly 90% complete.
The layout is located near Sacramento and participated in last year's NMRA X2011 national convention http://www.x2011west.org/. During that week we hosted tours as well as Layout Design Special Interest Group http://www.ldsig.org/. Two operation sessions were held for members of the Operations Special Interest Group http://www.opsig.org/.
Here are some photos from the April 2012 Op session courtesy of operator Jay Hansell.
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