Angle crossing

Sn42, United States, 3.5 by 3 foot

South bound Freight    North Bound Mixed    Station

Panoramas    Point switches    Under construction

Angle Crossing is set on the imaginary Dismal Swamp & Southern Railroad.
In 1898 by converting and extending lumber spurs in Perquimans County the Dismal Swamp & Southern Railroad extended the Dismal Swamp Railroad (wonderful name for a railroad) nine miles to Nicanor, North Carolina. The goals were to gain access to timber stands at the southern edge of the Dismal Swamp and to interchange at Nicanor with another 3’ 6” narrow gauge line the Suffolk & Carolina Railroad. In 1904 the Suffolk & Carolina Railroad converted to standard gauge and interchange became transfer. Timber traffic is the railroads life blood with north bound logs to the sawmill near Great Bridge, Virginia and cut timber heading south to Nicanor for transfer to the standard gauge. The other major source of traffic is aggregate used as ballast and gravel for building purposes. The charcoal furnaces at Lynches also provide traffic. Indecently the 3'-6" gauge was customary among the local lumber railroads, considered the minimum feasible in the spongy terrain.
Sn42 (or Sn3½) is S scale (or S gauge) a ratio of 1:64 scale running on 16.5 mm gauge track (the same as 00 gauge) giving a narrow gauge of 3 ft 6 (1,067 mm).

Most South Bound Freight is lumber products - sawn wood and off cuts used for fuel.

All stock on the layouts is Free lance.

Real trains were much longer but the layout is designed to fit into a limited space





North bound freight is mostly logs to the sawmill at Great Bridge

Aggregate is mostly north bound with some general freight

The train is mixed as it has the railroads drover's caboose moving 'head end' and the occasional passenger



The station at Angle Corner is basic - a lock up and a short siding mostly for logs

The station also handles lumber products and aggregate.