Here is the real Cheverie Mountain Railroad layout area in Nova Scotia. Existing railway tracks, underlying geology, rivers and Minas Basin, loading ports and freelance tracks will be shown on overlays. There will be two railyards - one near Cheverie Mountain and one in Windsor.
The existing abandonned Dominion Atlantic Railway tracks are shown on this overlay.
Underlying real geology shown on this overlay (underlay). Blue is the Windsor Group and yellow the Horton Group. All of the geology in the layout will be accurate. Their associated mines and quarries will be connected all the way north to Walton by the CMRX freelance tracks.
Suitable compression will be used to connect this layout to the CN Fairview Intermodal Terminal in Halifax, the Autoport Terminal in Eastern Passage, a sea terminal in Dartmouth, and the main meeting of all the tracks in Windsor Junction. Since the Bay of Fundy tides are enormous, I will choose low tide for modelling the main layout area (tide times will be different on the Atlantic Ocean for Halifax and Eastern Passage). I will choose this season of the year - spring. I will include all periods of chronological time from the past, present and future.
Operation of the entire layout will take place near the town of Windsor, Nova Scotia. This includes the Halifax-Dartmouth end of the layout. The next step will be to put all this on layout tables in my basement. I have the entire full basement to do this. Table layout in progress today. The two main layout regions, (1) Cheverie Mountain-Windsor and (2) Halifax-Dartmouth-Eastern Passage will be well separated and not visible to eachother with the exception of the control center in Windsor.
At Cheverie Mountain Railyard ore cars carrying gypsum, barite, aggregate, slate, shale and other commercial ores will arrive for staging from branches going northeast to Noel Shore, Pembroke, Cheverie, and Walton. This is carried out by CMRX. The cars will be transported to Windsor Junction where they will be transferred to CN and then headed to a Dartmouth sea terminal near the National Gypsum terminal on Bedford Basin. The ores will be loaded on ships which I will also model in HO.
The control center will have a display that monitors the voltage and current on every individual piece of track in the whole layout. Working on that part of the control electronics now.
Basic table layout dimensions easily available in my basement. That centre section is 12' I just drew it too long.