SV and GS Ry

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Owner	Arnie Steiner
City, Country	Staten Island
State/Prov	NY
Scale	N
Name of Model	SV and GS Ry

The Susquehanna Valley and Gulf Summit Railway was begun about two years ago. While the SVGS is not my dream layout, I wanted to create something with a variety of visual settings that would allow for creativity and realistic visual detail. Hence, I’ve created a rather fanciful and fictional layout that incorporates structural and street lighting that automatically come on when the room lighting is turned off, traffic lights that automatically change in the town of Summit, and automatic sound effects (i.e., diesel horn when a train passes over a section of track, running water of the Susquehanna River, birds chirping over the daytime landscape, crickets chirping over the night time landscape, a flickering, raging fire in a burning building with fire engine sirens in the distance, a grade crossing bell and the clickety-clack of wheels, and an automatic station stop in Susquehanna with a customized automatic boarding announcement—“The Susquehanna Valley and Gulf Summit Express now boarding. All Aboard!” For the transitional lighting from day to night, I used an optical sensing power pack designed for use on garden pathway lights.

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