Note: this layout is participating in the CIRROPS 2012 Operations Weekend.
The year is mid-fall 1970. The Inland Pacific Railway is a “what if” continuation of the Northern Pacific to Kansas City, Chicago and Indianapolis and Cincinnati. The fictional city of Savannah is the focal point of the layout. An engine facility and shop as well as a hump yard are located here. The railroad represents a variety of industries along the way. There are rural scenes as well as urban scenes.
Among the industries served are: an auto stamping plant, grain elevator, flour mill, a publishing plant, condiment plant, a Carnation products plant, A Red Gold tomato processing plant, an ink plant and more.
There are three locals and a variety of thru trains including a unit coal train to a power plant. The hump yard is a place of high activity as trains are made up and broken down during an operating session. There is an interchange with the B&O railroad. Toward the end of a session a train leaves Oxford and collects the local’s work and takes the cars to the hump yard at Savannah.
The IP still has two daily passenger trains to serve the system
