The Layout

 

 

We start our tour of the Rock Mountain Railroad at the Otter Creek yard heading west

 

Looking east  from the west end of the Northtown yard

 

Looking towards the Otter Creek fueling facility and engine house. The town of Otter Creek is seen in the background.

 

The east end of the Northtown yard looking at the refridgeration plant in the town of Otter Creek

 

Looking into the Town of Otter Creek

 

Looking back at the engine shop from the Town of Otter Creek

The first stop going west is the Riverside Grain transloading facility

 

The next stop west is Silverton.  Here we see Silverton fuels

 

Wilson Plastics and a couple of small stores in Silverton

 

The main industry in Silverton is the Silverton sawmill

 

Final look at Silverton. Rock Mountain can be seen in the background

 

The next stop going west is Muskrat River, where we find the Farmer's Co-operative Elevator.

On the right is the west entrance to the Rock Mountain tunnel.

 

Muskrat River also has an intermodal transloading facility and grain elevator car storage

 

Just west of Muskrat River we see the east entrace to the Rock Moutain tunnel

 

Just west of the the Rock Mountain tunnel is a rockcut in the horseshoe curve between Easton & Muskrat River

 

Just east of Easton is the bridge over Otter Creek

 

The next stop going west is the Town of Easton. 

Here we see Texaco refinery & Northern Light power plant

 

Here we see two tunnels, one to Rock Mountain coal mine (left) and a second to Caseville (right)

 

Taking the left tunnel we come to the Rock Mountain coal mine

 

Another view of the Rock Mountain Mine

 

Also in this section is a loading spur for Mountain Forest to send logs to the Silverton sawmill

 

Through the right tunnel is the Caseville yard and Town of Lawrenceville. 

The first three tracks are Caseville staging yard and the last two tracks is Lawrenceville. Lawrenceville houses some fictitious industries to accomadate the operation of our routing software called Shipit.

 

On the left side one can see the track going to the Rock Mountain Coal Mine

 

I hope you ejoyed your tour of the Rock Mountain Railroad layout. 

Please feel free to visit as often as you like as new picures will be added as they become available.

 

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14 December 2006