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Carleton Railway                               http://carletonrailway.blogspot.com/

11 Operators per session                              Owner: Stephen McMullin


Set in 1965 in rural Carleton County, New Brunswick, the freelance "Carleton Railway" portrays a busy railway that caters to the needs of farmers, small manufacturing plants, and passengers.  The potato industry is highlighted with fields of potatoes, ten potato storage warehouses, and a potato processing plant.  The beef and dairy industries are also represented on the layout.


The HO-scale, point-to-point, double-deck railway features a 260' single-track mainline, an NCE DCC system, and lots of opportunities for local switching.  A branchline leads to a rural sawmill, and the railway interchanges with the Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and the Bangor and Aroostook (each of which is represented by staging).  Car cards and waybills are used for operation and basic scenery is complete.


Hampton & St. Martins Railway       http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/louism/st_martinsrr.html

6 Operators/Crew per session                      Owner: Louis McIntyre


It is September 1954 and The Hampton & St Martins Railway is managing to eke out a marginal existence transporting lumber, farm produce, and manganese ore. This HO version is based significantly on the prototype – a small branchline that ran from the CN mainline at Hampton, NB to St Martins on the Bay of Fundy shore. In the real world, the railway was abandoned in 1940, but the model borrows liberally from the places and scenes along the line. The focus of the layout is scenery and rural branchline operations


Although there has been plenty of discussion about upgrading, The Hampton & St Martins is still using a small Atlas DCC system with cordless telephones as throttles The railway is also transitioning from small Post-It notes on the roof of each car to waybills and switchlists; where we will be at convention time will be a surprise for all of us.


Island Central Railway                      http://sites.google.com/site/islandcentral/home

10 Operators per session                             Owner: Douglas Devine


Having passed the quarter-century mark, the Island Central is the “queen of the fleet” in terms of history as well as size. This is a basement empire that focuses on operations paralleling the present NB Southern Railway.  It has major rail facilities in Saint John and McAdam, a long mainline and lots of staging tracks; operators of this railway enjoy a wide range of activity.   Fast bridge line traffic, VIA’s ATLANTIC, mainline wayfreight, branch locals and lots of terminal and industrial switching are all part of the mix.   A crew can quite happily become engaged in operating one of Saint John’s six yards and not see the rest of the railway for an entire evening if wished.


As in the real world of Southern New Brunswick, the ICR handles large quantities of international container traffic to and  from Canada’s East Coast ports, petroleum products from a huge refinery, numerous products to and from five pulp and paper mills, domestic automobiles and a lot more.   A fleet of ancient mostly GP-40 and 38 locomotives is maintained to haul much of this traffic assisted by run-thru units from CN, CP RAIL, Guilford Maine Central and on rare occasions NS.  The ICR operates using a NCE DCC with radio cabs, and car-mounted thumbtacks that readily identify destinations on the railway.