TRACK DETAILS
All of the track and turnouts are Shinohara Code 100.
There are 15 #4 turnouts including one double-slip. See trackplan.
Interesting features of the construction include turnout power-routing, under-table turn-out controls using Caboose hand-throws, an upper level logging scene (seen in the lower right of this photo and reached by a switch-back and a 9" radius curve at the east end of the layout. (this radius works fine with either locomotive and with standard 36' and 40' cars) The radius is super-elevated.

CONSTRUCTION
The top is 1/4" luan-ply with 3/8" homosote over it. The framework is 3/4" oak-faced plywood with 1/2" plywood backdrop.
The layout sets on either a 36" high bookcase on on a 48" high display stand for shows.

ELECTRICAL DETAILS
Electrical power is supplied by a GML hand-held yard throttle tethered at the east end of the layout.
The turnouts are all power-routed so a locomotive can be left many places on the layout by merely swithing a turn-out.
The track is fed power in approximately 12 locations.
Some of the buildings have interior lights.

LOCOMOTIVES
The steam locomotive generally handles log car delivery up and down to the logging camp. It is a Mantua 0-4-0 Goat that has been re-motored with a Sagami can motor and re-geared with a 28:1 NWSL gearbox. Power is picked up through drivers and through all tender wheels to ensure good slow-speed operation.
The Walter's Fairbanks-Morse diesel is stock and operates perfectly.

ROLLING STOCK
All of the cars roll on either Jay-Bee or Kadee metal wheelsets. All of the cars are made from kit-bashed Roundhouse, Silver Streak, or Grass River kits.
There are approximately 30 cars lettered for the PCE and 10 other extremely modified cars that are used on the railroad.

BUILDINGS
Several of the buildings (including Stenfeldt's and the Wood Chip plant) are entirely made of matt board. Horizontal lap siding on the Stenfeldt building was made with a wallpaper knife.
Other buildings are, no doubt, recognized as regularily available commercial buildings.

OTHER DETAILS
A standard movement of cars consists of:
2 full wood chip cars from Wood Chip Plant to Anderson Paper, and return with two empties. (requires a run-arounds each way)
2 full log cars down from logging camp to Stenfeldt's mill, return with 2 empties. (requires a run-around each way)
2 full pulpwood cars from logging camp to Wood Chip plant ( no run-around !)
1 boxcar to passing siding from Lindsay furniture and Anderson Paper. (return empties)
All of the cars are manually uncoupled.

The Parker Creek & Eastern Railroad is ficticious short-line railroad from the late 1940's that operated in Northern Michigan. It connected to the Pere Marquette Railroad just east of Parker Creek and provided a rail connection for logs, lumber, wood chips, paper products, and furniture from industries in Parker Creek.