Salt Creek & Eastern

The Salt Creek and Eastern is a freelanced railroad located more in a State of Mind as opposed to a specific
location. But if you must have a place, think mid Pennsylvania. I had roughly 1,200 square feet of basement to
work with and some very deep crawl spaces. Using what I had learned from my previous layouts and my
experiences on many other layouts, I’ve ended up with the current railroad. It represents the middle division of
a larger railroad.
I wanted to have a layout that provided a bit of something for most operators. I wanted long mainline running,
quite a bit of local switching, a main yard and engine facility, some narrow gauge, and some short-line
operations. I wanted it to be set in the Eastern US, sometime in the mid 60’s. That was the railroading that I
grew up with and was familiar with. Having been schooled in Timetable and Train Order by Jack Ozanich, I
wanted to operate with TT/TO rules. However, we do use a relaxed set of rules, and there’s no black Cadillac
roaming the layout looking for screw-ups.

   SC&E Lower Level.pdf

   SC&E Upper Level.pdf

Layout Owner

Chuck Tuttle

Location

West Lafayette, IN

Scale

HO

Layout Size

32 ft x 38 ft

Mainline Size

550 ft

Era

1965

Crew Complement

10 - 12

Completion

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

Control System

Digitrax

Wi-Fi Throttles

Yes

Communications System

Wayside phones

Dispatching Method

Timetable and Train Order

Car Forwarding

Car Cards/Waybills

Fast Clock

2:1

Pets

Yes - One Cat, Max, and Bruno, a Bernesse Mountain Dog. They are kept out of the layout space, and away from the basement entry.