Illinois Central Gulf - Richton Division

Depicting ICG from Chicago to Gilman, Il in the late 70's. Following towns are on the on layout: Kensington (Chicago), Riverdale, Dolton, Harvey, Markham Yard, Homewood, Richton Park, Peotone, Indian Oaks, Kankakee, Otto, Gilman.

The layout is point to point with staging at each end. Part of the layout is double decked. As per the prototype, part of the line is CTC while part is ABS. Signalling implementation is in progress. There is a mixture of locals/turns, transfers, through trains, unit trains, yard jobs, and two Amtrak runs.

Typical trains run during a session:

Locals / Turns
- Markham Local (works Markham, Homewood, Harvey)
- Kensington Turn (works Dolton, Riverdale, Kensigton)
- Chicago Heights Local (EJ&E)
- University Park Local (works industrial park)
- Bradley Turn
- Indian Oaks Turn
- Peotone Turn
- Gilman Turn
- Bradley ADM Switcher
- Birminingham Bolt Switcher
- Interlake Steel Switcher

Transfers (to/from Markham Yard & staging)
- IHB Blue Island Yard Transfer
- GTW Transfer
- BRC Clearing Transfer
- ICG Glenn Yard Transfer

Manifest Scheduled Freight Trains
- AP1/AP2 Auto Parts (Chicago/Markham to/from St. Louis/S. Staging)
- XC1 / CX2 Mixed Freight (Chicago/N. Staging to/from Centralia/S. Staging)
- CS1 / SC2 Mixed Freight (Chicago/Markham to/from St. Louis/S. Staging)
- NC6 / CN3 Mixed Freight (Chicago/Markham to/from New Orleans/S. Staging)
- CBP / PCB Mixed Freight (Chicago/Markham to/from Paducah/S. Staging)
- WP1 / WP2 Wisconsin Electric Unit Coal Train
- BOT Hot Iron Bottle Train serving Interlake Steel BOF
- COMED Commonwealth Edison Unit Coal Train

Passenger Train
- 58/59 City of New Orleans (Chicago/N. Staging to/from New Orleans/S. Staging)

There are dedicated positions at Markham Yard and Kankakee Yard, and a Dispatcher.

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Layout Owner

Steve Johnson

Location

Noblesville, IN

Scale

HO

Layout Size

38 ft x 30 ft

Mainline Size

400 ft

Era

70's

Crew Complement

3 - 7

Completion

Track: 100%
Scenery: 0%
Electrical: 40%

Control System

Digitrax - Simplex and Duplex

Wi-Fi Throttles

Yes

Communications System

Wayside phones

Prototype and Theming

Some compromises with prototype or freelance

Operations Rigor

Purposeful operations

Tone and Atmosphere

Casual

Dispatching Method

CTC

Car Forwarding

JMRI

Layout Location

Basement - down stairs

ADA Compliant

No

Pets

Yes - Dog and cat