Beaver Lode Railway is an outdoor G-scale setup. It will model both Union Pacific 1940s/1950s as well as Southern Pacific Daylight 98-99. It currently consists of a 40' depot area (Cheyenne), a 100' trestle (mainline, arrival/departure, drill tracks), and a turn around at the far end.
Future additions include a 125' mainline run from the far turn around to a junction (Green River) which will proceed further north to Ogden, and turn left across a bridge to another junction. Turning North goes to Portland/Seattle, while South heads towards Emeryville/San Fransisco/Los Angeles. Most of the above points (at least for the foreseeable future) will be "signposts", ie. no actual turnouts/track/buildings.
San Francisco will be approx. 250' down line, placing it directly parallel to, and visible from, Cheyenne. It will have a full depot (3rd & Townsend), yard, etc. I hope to model some of SF itself, building a working cablecar/streetcar on the hillside that connects to 3rd & Townsend. The mainline will (eventually) head South another 125' to LA.
Obviously a layout of this size could not use live track. Instead I opted for a "Dead Rail" system.
I built all the supporting hardware more or less from scratch. JMRI is used for the interface, with OpenLCB
control of switches, signals, etc. Decided on WiFi for the signal transport as bluetooth doesn't have the
necessary range, and CAN bus would be impractical at these distances.