The GNC is set around the harbor of Tacoma, Washington in the late 60's. Motive power for the GNC is all first and second generation diesels from ALCO and EMD. As a belt line railroad that serves the docks, piers and harbor industries, the GNC interchanges with several class 1 railroads at Tacoma including the Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, and Milwaukee Road. The Great Northern Railway hauls the GNC's mainline tonnage north to Seattle and south to Portland. In addition to interchange runs, several terminal transfers between the GNC's Coastline Yard and the Water Street Yard will be run during an operations session.

A portable N scale project railroad which is featured in the N Scale Railroading magazine. My name is Mike Pagano and I have put together a series of articles with the help from other modelers to illustrate topics of portability, light weight construction, resiliency, and reliability. We also wanted to to build a layout based on prototype information, new techniques and have fun building it.