The Milwaukee Road, River Line

Railroad Tracks Navigation BarLink to MINN-RAIL Schedule PageLink to MINN-RAIL Layouts PageLink to MINN-RAIL Hotel PageLink to MINN-RAIL Restaurants PageLink to MINN-RAIL Hobby Shops PageLink to MINN-RAIL Links PageLink to MINN-RAIL Registration PageLink to MINN-RAIL FAQ PageLink to MINN-RAIL Contacts PageLink to MINN-RAIL Home PageLink to MINN-RAIL Information Page

The DRI Line is an HO layout, loosely modeled around the Davenport, Rock Island and Western Railroad operation in the Quad Cities. The layout starts at Clinton, Iowa and ends at Muscatine, Iowa. Staging is Chicago and Kansas City. The layout operation is centered around switching, with trains arriving and departing from staging only to supply the cars needed at all of the different industries.
 
The layout is a 2 level around the wall layout using 3/4 of a 30 X 25 foot basement, featuring four towns, three different industrial switching areas, a main yard, eight transfer runs and two locals. A third level is home to the staging area. Nahant, the main Milwaukee yard at Davenport will switch two thru trains, build and break down three way freights, six transfers and do local switching. They will handle over 150 cars a session. They interchange with the Burlington, Rock Island, DRI Line and CNW.
 
There are three main line operators and a dispatcher. The yard has an Operator and five people involved in switching operations. You will need to bring radios. To separate the main line from yard operations we use two different radio channels. The sessions use an eight to one fast clock. All trains and transfers run on a schedule, all switching is done by shifts. The customer has designated the ideal time or shift, when their industry should be switched. Some industries, like John Deere, are switched more than one shift and have several different tracks to spot. 

Superintendent Dave Nickolaus
Division or Location: River Line
Interchange Railroads: Burlington, Rock Island, Milwaukee Road and CNW.
Size of Railroad: 565 Square feet
Scale: HO
Era: early 1960s
Control System: Digitrax
Scale Clock Speed: 8:1
Length of Session: 3 hours
Number of Crew: 10
Train Control: Verbal Track Warrants
Are Radios Required: Yes
Listed Jobs: Dispatcher, Nahant Operator, 5 switch engineers and 3 road engineers
Accessibility: Stairs
Distance from hotel: N/A
Estimated travel time from hotel: N/A!--mstheme-->
Web Site: {None...yet}

Layout Photos (click to enlarge):

 

Milwaukee Road Photo 7

 

Return to Layouts Page

Information

Cute Railroad Page Divider

Note: The Click on the following link and leave the MINN-RAIL site means that the link following will take you off the MINN-RAIL website. We have no control over the content of these sites, but believe they will be of interest.   
Send email to the webmaster with questions or comments about this web site.

Site originally designed by PJWebWorx.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 by MINN-RAIL.