Ron Auletti
Port Kings Pacific
Bonus session only

Port Kings Pacific (PKP), in conjunction with Carslin Brothers Logging (CBL) branch line, is a freelance Shortline Railroad on the North Olympic Peninsula of WA set in the late 1930’s, after the heyday of the Milwaukee Road.

West end operations include trains moving logs from CBL camps, manganese, fish, milk, and farm produce to the east. At the east end, key industries include Ives Mill, Sunshine Cannery, Prices Dairy, along with cattle, food, lumber, dairy, & other products - all shipped across the peninsula and by rail barge to Seattle.

Mixed trains and the Spirit Hot Springs express provide peninsula passenger and mail service. Steam rod engines power PKP trains, while CBL trains use geared locos - all with sound.

Our single-track point-to-point mainline layout has 5 towns with sidings. Bench and track work are 100% complete with 96 Tortoise controlled turnouts, 13 staging tracks, 2 DCC turntables and Seattle rail barge service. Scenery design, modeling, structures, and great backdrops are the team effort of my graphic designer wife, Lessie, Kevin Regan, and professional artist Ian Henderson.

Basic information:
A. Scale: HO
B. DC or DCC: NCE Wireless DCC
C. Dispatching/control method: verbal, TT
D. Car control: JMRI Operations Pro Manifests
E. Mainline: 145' PKP single track, with 35’ CBL branch line
F. Room size: 42' x 15'
G. Percent sceniced: 60%
H. Handicap accessibility: none - 18 steps up to layout from garage entry
I. Maximum number of guest operators: 4

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