D&RRR
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The Delaware and Raritan N-Scale Model Railroad
The Delaware & Raritan Railroad (D&RRR) is a freelance N-Scale model railroad based on several short lines situated in central New Jersey. The layout features also two 1st class railroads in the area - Norfolk & Southern and CSX.
The Delaware & Raritan is actually a canal built in the 1830s, connecting the Delaware and Raritan rivers. The canal was used for commercial shipping until late 1930s. Today it is mostly used for recreational purposes and for water flow control.
My home is situated in Somerville, NJ, near the NS/NJT Raritan Valley line, the Bound Brook junction and the NS yard at Manville. The old Delaware and Raritan Canal meets the Raritan river not far from Somerville.
The layout at a glance:
- Scale: N (1:160)
- Size (preliminary): 25'x12' (7.6m x 3.7m)
- Type: central aisle
- Era: current (2000s)
- Featured railroads: D&RRR (freelance short line), NS (main line & yard), CSX, NJT (on NS trackage)
- Control system: DCC traction, computer based interlockings and CTC, signaling based on NORAC rules
- Type of operations: mainline traffic (NS & CSX), short line switching and cars exchange (D&RRR), commuter passenger traffic (New Jersey Transit)
Project status
Prototype documentation, layout planning and design.
May 2010
Construction started with the locomotive DCC programing and testing tracks. This is a 60" x 6" module that will be fitted above a workbench and will include, besides the programming track, a test track and a storage track. At a later stage it will be connected to one of the staging yards.
Design work in progress for one of the staging yards.
I installed the Java Model Railroad Interface, JMRI, on my laptop and I am testing it with a Digitrax PR3 decoder programmer that will be used as LocoNet interface.
Features
- NS / D&RRR interchange yard
- D&RRR line with several industries
- NS yard
- two staging yards
- NS main line with NJT stations
- CSX main line.
