| Layout | Appalachian & Ohio Railroad | Owner | David Stewart |
| Scale | O | Era | August, 1968 |
| Train Control | Radio NCE | Road(s) | Proto-freelance plus C&O, PC, B&O, N& |
| Modeled Location | Southeastern Ohio and into central West Virginia | Car Routing | Car Cards and Waybills |
| Dispatching | Searchlight signals with US&S CTC Machine | ADA | yes |
| Web Site | A&O Railroad web site | Bring | yourself |
| Address | Milliken, CO | Crew | 20 |
| % Track Done | 99.9 | % Scenery Done | +/- 20 |
| Layout Size | 2500 sq ft | Distance from Hotel | 45 minutes |
Description
The A&O occupies a 3,000 sq' walk-out basement and has been fully operational since 2017. Scenery is just beginning. Merchandise traffic dominate the north, SE Ohio end of the modeled portion of the RR in the Cincinnati-like river city of Millport. Special features of this area include a functional hump classification yard, numerous switch jobs including the totally isolated industrial switching district of Fillmore Heights. Several other railroads interchange with the A&O via trackage-rights.
After crossing the Ohio River on a 12' sequence of bridges into West Virginia, the main becomes single-track and winds it's way through the verdant hills and towns of Appalachia to the southern end of the modeled portion of the A&O. Special features of this coal intensive section include the perpetual thunderstorm town of Linnwood, WV, the totally isolated 150' long Kayford coal branch with its working loaders ("live loads"), coal classification at the massive Morrison Coal Prep Plant, and the fully functional Whiting Rotaside Dumper provides barge loading of the coal drags for movement on the Ohio River (if you brought it, you dump it!).
The layout's trackwork is all handlaid and there are numerous design, lighting, control, and operational innovations on version 2.0 of the A&O. See MR 5/06 for 1.0 and MRP 2009 for 2.0. Also www.aorailrailroad.com.
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