In the early 2000s I started the "big" CY&P. It was a huge project and filled most of a 16' X 26' area. It had provisions for one large yard, a passenger train terminal double track main line continuous run, and a commercial/industrial branch to a transfer yard.
A somewhat primitive sketch of what I had going on.
It kept me busy for sure over about 15 years. I will include a number of photos from that era:
Main freight yard at Chicago under construction.
It was at this time, I made a decision to change to DCC occurred. I was kind of a skeptic about DCC, but when I started drawing up wiring diagrams with all the toggles, blocks and wiring, just for this area, I took a serious look at it. I checked out vendor sites on the internet, joined some DCC Yahoo groups, decided what features were of interest to me and narrowed my choices to CVP, NCE, and MRC. CVP had a nice system, but at the time did not offer a walk-around throttle. It came down to NCE and MRC and the economics of the MRC system won me over. Over the years it has done what ever I expected and I have been very pleased.
Last of the benchwork and sub-roadbed installed illustrating the use of steel-stud benchwork framing described in an previous post.
First run a of a train on the reverse loop under the area shown above. Seen here is CY&P Fairbanks Morse H10-44 79 leading. #79 is an old Cary metal cast body on a stretched Athearn chassis with a Kato motor. A favorite puller!
Out on the main line. the tail end of a local freight is passing over a culvert..
Alco RS-1 160 is just entering the "high line" a long elevated stetch on the way to Blue Island and Riverdale.
Baldwin AS-616 A and B pair in Chicago. A lot of construction "stuff" fills the scenery.
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