Hello all, After having purchased a SMD84 a couple years ago, I have finally gotten around to checking it out. Quite a nice unit, I had it...
Durham & Southern (later Seaboard Air Lines, CSX) 1906-1979 map of routes, connections and stations
Lots of traffic through the Big 4 Jct: BN Coal, P&PU Pekin local, Santa Fe, Peoria and Eastern (NYC/PC/CR), The Whiskey Main, IC, Chicago...
Even with labels, it is still difficult to set all the switches correctly on this panel in the Pekin Area.
The P&PU's double track bridge over the Illinois River is just to the right of this picture. This is the major choice point for trains...
BN, CNW, P&PU, TPW all run trains through this area. Operators often get lost.