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NATIONAL MODEL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION
MID-CENTRAL REGION
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Estate Sale

 

Hello,
If you have received this e-mail, you are probably a member of the N.M.R.A.

The purpose of this email is to announce this model railroad has been dismantled; And announce that many items will be sold on Saturday and Sunday  September 16 & 17,  from 9:30 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. both days.

The owner has spent the last several months meticulously doing the disassembly.

Directions:
Denny Whitaker – “2 Cleveland Flats Railroads” (NKP & B.A.R. Steel Co.) - HO - 15490 Chestnut Oak Lane, Strongsville, 44149.

Located 5-minutes west of IR-71 & SR82. From Prospect Road (SR 237) and Royalton Road (SR
82), drive south to the second street on the right – Old Oak Drive. At Old Oak Drive, turn right (west) – this street meanders to the left. At the first street, Chestnut Oak Lane, turn left (south). Fourteenth house on the right (south) side of the street – across from small parking area. Enter the basement through the garage.

History

This Railroad is a fully operational HO railroad (era 1950 thru 1964) The layout (1,250 sq. ft.) is mostly imagined Cleveland Flats industries and business along the NKP’s Morgans Run. Walkway aisles represent the Cuyahoga River. A third of the layout features The BAR Steel Co., a fully integrated steel mill with its own railroad. The BAR Steel RR interchanges with the B&O and the NKP. The NKP serves all industries outside the steel mill and interchanges with 4 other railroads --- ERIE, N&SS, NYC, and PRR. The steel mill facility is not available, but there are some rail cars and a lot of nice loads.

Between 2014 and 2018 friends helped Whitaker finish all the track work and a lot of the scenery on his layout (started in 2006). You will see many quality-built buildings --- kits, kit-bashed, and scratch-built. Track ballasting and ground cover are showing up in many areas. DCC sound equipped, and weathered locomotives traverse 500 square feet of benchwork (153 feet of facia/valance). The layout design was first created and continues to be updated using 3rd PlanIt Software.

OP-SESSIONS REQUIRED 11 OPERATORS. The BAR Steel mill’s five engineer’s use “action sentences” switch lists printed on 3”x 5” index cards. The NKP Trainmaster issues “JMRI switch lists” to the NKP Yardmaster for the four NKP engineers. The engineers traverse over 1,000 feet of trackage. Two-thirds of the layout’s 200 turnouts are thrown by hand. The balance by powered turnouts, thrown by pushbuttons, or operator “bumps.”

TRAINS CAN ALSO BE RUN BY using the layout’s laptop and Java Model Railroad Interface (JMRI) software.
JMRI interfaces with guest owned smartphones and tablets. For Apple handheld devices, the Apple Store offers two apps: (1) WiThrottle (numerous commands for $10), and (2) WiThrottle Lite (free with limited commands). For Android devices, Google. The Owner enjoys technology and uses Digtrax for his train control.

As a past operator of this layout it is worth visiting this sale!

Gary Sole 440 250 9050 gsantafe7@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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