Los Angeles Junction

Layout Scale: HO Scale

Layout Size: 11 x 20 ft U Shape

Layout Concept:

This layout depicts the densely packed urban switching action on the LA Junction Railroad, set in and around the metropolitan Los Angeles area City of Vernon, California in 1975. The prototype LAJ is a switching railroad that accepts traffic from the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and ATSF, for delivery to local customers within the cities of Vernon, Maywood, Bell and Commerce. On the prototype, the LAJ operated three yards (A, B and C), which accepted traffic from the three feeder Class One railroads.

Operations Description: Only the customers and associated traffic in Vernon is depicted on this LAJ, with LAJ and UP trains originating out of the “A Yard”. LAJ jobs serve 17 customers and the UP jobs serving 3 customers with a combination of CF 7’s and GP 38-2’s as motive power. The ATSF jobs originate out of the Malabar Yard and service an additional 5 customers with GP-35’s. Trains are dispatched sequentially to work a variety of customer spurs using switch-lists, including a stockyard, fruit packing plant, team tracks, cold storage an Oscar Meyer plant and others.

Crew Jobs:

* 3 Road Crews

Layout Owner

Bob Calicchia

Location

Rossmoor, CA

Scale

HO

Layout Size

17 ft x 20 ft

Mainline Size

25 ft

Era

1970s

Crew Complement

3 - 3

Completion

Track: 95%
Scenery: 75%
Electrical: 100%

Control System

NCE

Dispatching Method

Sequential

Car Forwarding

Car Cards/Waybills

Pets

None