The Cascade and Deschutes Railroad is a freelance HO scale railroad based on railroad operations in western Oregon. The general era is the early 1970’s. The railroad is a bridge line with two major classification interchange yards, two staging yards (east and west) and numerous towns and industries generating a wide variety of freight traffic.

A typical operating session includes positions for a dispatcher, two yard masters, and four to six road crews.  There are local “turns” to each switching district and towns supporting industries.  In addition, a number of unit grain and coal. intermodal, and passenger trains are run during each session.

Train movements are authorized with track warrants, while car forwarding is controlled using four-part waybills and car cards.  Train crew instructions and operating requirements specific to each job are provided.   The layout is powered by a NCE Digital Command Control system .  There are 10 power districts.  Throttles are both wired and wireless. 

A base scenery level (no plywood showing) is completed over 95% of the layout. Industrial districts are more detailed and complete and some rural mountain areas are also more detailed.

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