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Lake Town & Shire

Don Nute

445 Crestwood Drive
Athens, GA 30605
706-546-5462
dnute@uga.edu
www.laketownandshire.net

Tour Schedule

Directions

Take I-85 north to 316 and take it south past 78; or take 78 to 316. Once you are on 316 south of 78, go past the Oconee Connector and get into the far right lane. This will take you onto Loop 10 south. Take this to the South Milledge exit and turn right on South Milledge. Follow this a few miles into the country until it ends at Whitehall Road. Turn left on Whitehall Road and drive a few miles to you come to the first traffic right. Turn right at the light onto Barnett Shoals Road. Take the third left onto Old Lexington Road and then the second left onto Crestwood Drive. 445 is the fifth house on the right. Come to the back yard.

Layout at a Glance

The LT&S serves six towns and both logging and mining interests. The loop-to-loop track design includes a stream, a pond, a waterfall, tunnels through ridges, a 12 foot concrete viaduct, over 70' of trestle, and a live scale forest. All steam roster. (mostly resembles eastern narrow gauge, early 1900's)

Scale: 1	20.3 (Fn3)
Size	100' x 85'
Prototype	None
Locale	Tolkien's Middle Earth
Style	Loop-to-loop Garden RR
Len. of Mainline	400'
Layout Height	Ground to approx. 2'
Roadbed	Combination of gravel/cedar/cement board/HDPE ladder
Trackwork	Aristocraft 332 brass
Turnouts	#4 (Aristocraft 10' radius)
Min. Radius	5 feet
Maximum Grade	4.5%
Scenery	Live plants, pond, stream, dirt, rocks
Controls	Digitrax DCC

Updated: Sat Jul 31 10:53:08 2010