Chessie System
N Gauge By
Andre Kritzinger
I bought my first model trains in 1964, when I was still
in high school. Those were in HO scale and mainly British outline. Years
later, in 1978, I swapped all my HO (Horribly Oversized) equipment for
the N (Normal) scale trains of an Air Force colleague, Col Daan Erwee,
and I'm still modelling in that scale now.
In 1999, soon after I retired, I founded the Cape Town N
Trak club, and in the process I learned about Digital Command Control (DCC).
I now run my trains with the Digitrax Chief system (upgraded from my
original Empire Builder system) and there's no way I'll even consider
going back to the old days of "analogue" DC control.
The railroad I model is the Chessie System, an American
railroad system which came into being as a result of the purchase of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad (B&O) and it's subsidiary, the Western
Maryland railroad (WM), by the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad (C&O) in 1963.
The Chessie System paint scheme, based on Chessie, the Chesapeake &
Ohio's sleeping kitten publicity program of many years, was introduced
in September 1972. I model the Chessie System over the period from 1972
to 1986, but my layout is totally freelance and makes no attempt at
representing any actual part of Chessie's country.
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