Welcome

Welcome to the CIRROPS 2012 Ops Weekend.  Registration opens February 6, 2012.

The CIRROPS Organizing Committee has put together a weekend of operations that includes 9 great layouts for you to choose from.   The participating layouts are

• Pete Pedigo’s New Unionville & Western.  His layout scenery looks real.  That’s because it is.  Pete operates a 71/2-inch scale railroad on 48 Acres of land in the rolling hills of southern Indiana near Bloomington.

• Dave Petty’s Midwest Central is CIRROPS’s “new” layout, or more properly “a newly discovered layout”.  Dave is an x-railroader, who has created an N-scale layout that runs flawlessly and has beautiful scenery.

• Terry Gilmore’s Inland Pacific, which will have its last operating sessions during CIRROPS 2012.  His railroad has the authenticity of one who has worked on a real railroad (Terry is completing a career in railroading.).

The six other participating layouts are “veterans” of past CIRROPS Ops Weekends: Jim Munn’s Chicago & Northwestern, Christie Division, Mike Duncan’s Milwaukee Road, Southeastern Division, Bob Lehnen’s Chicago & Eastern Illinois in the 1950s, Chad Boas’ Monon,  Bob Talbot’s Louisville & Nashville, and Chuck Tuttle’s Salt Creek & Eastern.

See our Participating Layouts page for information on the nine participating layouts.

The CIRROPS 2012 Organizing Committee and I look forward to seeing you in Indianapolis the weekend of March 30 to April 1 having fun running trains.

Bob Lehnen, Chair

CIRROPS 2012 Organizing Committee

Indianapolis