This website has been archived from TrainWeb.org/wcng to TrainWeb.US/wcng.
The Western Consolidated Narrow Gauge is a 7/8 scale (or 1:13.7 ifin ya prefer) railline that I have installed 3/4 of the way around my house. While I have been involved in Outdoor Large Scale Railroading for about 9 years now, I've only been into 7/8 scale for about four. This is predominately a scratch builders scale, cause there is little or nothing available in the way of commercial products. The trains run on 45 mm gauge track the same as other large scale, but in this case the prototypical gauge is only 2 feet as opposed to the 3 ft, Meter Gauge, or Standard Gauge depicted in other scales.
While practitioners of this scale are primarily industrial or estate lines, some folks are making a valid attempt at modeling Maine Two Footers and succeeding admirably I might add. Me personally, I tend to be out on a tangent doing my own little thing. The WCNG is inspired by the Wicasset, Waterville and Farmington, Sandy River & Rangley Lakes roads of Maine and the East Broad Top RR in Pennsylvania, but is based in the Big Sandy Valley of West Virgina.
While a lot of Outdoor RRs are built as displays for a collection of railroad equipment, the WCNG is built for operations in a prototypical manner. That means basically, its a point to point layout with no loops. Trains run from Point A to Point B for a reson with stops to service industries along the way. This might be a good point to interject that all rolling stock is scratch built on Bachmann metal wheelsets. All locomtoves are built pretty much from the mechanisms up too, and all are equipped with battery R/C. No track power here, basically cause all the track is handlaid code 250 Aluminum rail spiked to cedar ties!
Operations themselves are covered in the Trainboard section of this site, but below is an overall diagram of current and proposed track:
In the future, look for more detailed digrams of each major area of the line, along with photos to help give ya a better sense of what the layout looks like!
