{"id":2260,"date":"2025-12-04T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/railwaymodellersmeetofbc.ca\/wp\/?page_id=2260"},"modified":"2026-03-15T22:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:00:36","slug":"michael-battens-esquimalt-and-nanaimo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/railwaymodellersmeetofbc.ca\/wp\/events\/operating-sessions\/michael-battens-esquimalt-and-nanaimo\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Batten’s Esquimalt and Nanaimo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The E&N Railway in N scale is a 22\u2019 by 13\u2019 around-the-walls layout built on a two-foot deep shelf, with an additional upper shelf at one end. The modeled portion of the layout represents the E&N Victoria subdivision from Victoria (mile 0.8) to Chemainus (mile 51.2), serving freight customers at Victoria, Esquimalt, Langford, Duncan, and Chemainus; as well as the E&N Lake Cowichan subdivision from Hayward (mile 41.6, Victoria subdivision) to Lake Cowichan (mile 18.0, represented by the upper staging yard). Staging at the north end of the layout represents Wellcox, and at the south end represents the E&N\u2019s Albion Yard and the CNR\u2019s Point Ellice Yard in Victoria.

Many of the major structures are represented by simple card mock-ups or stand-in structures to give some context to operations. Basic scenery and some vegetation has been installed in the area around Hayward and a model of the large MacMillan Bloedel lumber shed at Chemainus is currently under construction.\u00a0

The layout is set in 1979, and the operating scheme is based on that which took effect in October of that year, with the addition of a fictitious\u2014but plausible\u2014CN trackage rights operation. Trains are dispatched by timetable and train order, governed by a 6:1 fast clock, and car movements are directed by switch lists.

Log trains run with the full complement of accurately-sized cars, although most still need detailing and painting. Motive power fleet now accurately reflects the prototype in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Mockups or completed models represent all industries and passenger service facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Prototype<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Prototypical
Canadian Pacific Railway
Southern Vancouver Island
1979
CP (via barge or ferry at Nanaimo), CN (Victoria)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Layout<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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North Vancouver
N
22\u2019 x 13\u2019
Digitrax Zephyr with UT4 throttles
Basement down stairs
48 feet
One, plus three active staging yards
2
30%
35
Primarily Atlas GP9s,
some leased BCR MLW power as E&N fleet is upgraded
70 revenue, 9 non-revenue\/service, 4 cabooses
Atlas and Micro Engineering code 55<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Operations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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6:1
2.5 hours
6
TT&TO
Switch lists
Rudimentary (\u201cHey, you!\u201d)
Logger, Victoria yard, CN turn, Budd car\/wayfreight, dispatcher,agent\/operator
10 to 22 cars
Relaxed (this is Vancouver Island in 1979, man)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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