Central Indiana Division - Midwest Region - NMRA
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Kurt Kruty's
Milwaukee. Road – Southwestern Line
The Milwaukee. Road - Southwestern Line, (Racine, Wisconsin to Savanna, Illinois) layout consists of trackage from Racine Wisconsin to Beloit Wisconsin around 1950 and includes interchanges with CNW. Operation may be point to point or continuous. Kurt is considering modeling a portion of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee through the Racine segment of the layout. The mainline is single track with heavy industrial switching as well as light industry including service to agricultural related businesses between Racine and Beloit.
The layout is comprised of a multilevel walk-around layout with connecting helix, approximately 220 feet of mainline in a 11' x 14' x 16' space including a fiddle yard called Gatlif, a small interchange yard used to interchange cars between Racine and Sturtevant, Wisconsin. He plans to run 8-12 car freight trains along with Milwaukee Road light passenger and CNW commuter operations (modeling license exercised here) designed to challenge operating sessions. The roadbed is spline with homabed on open grid benchwork.. Yards and industrial areas are constructed of homabed on ½" plywood. Track includes Atlas code 83 track with #6 switches for mainline and yards. Micro-Engineering code 100 is used on the helix and Atlas code 100 on the connector tracks leading to/from the helix. DCC radio control is from Digitrax.
Kurt is a member of the Union Station Railroad Association group.
