The Great Northern Railway, Cascade Division, begins in Tacoma, Washington (staging), runs north to Everett and Seattle, and then east through the Cascade Mountains to Spokane (staging). It is constructed as a large point-to-point main line on three decks. Operation through the Cascade Tunnel requires helper service up the long grade and changeover to electric engines from Skykomish to Wenatchee (the heart of the apple district); then it's back to steam for the trip to Spokane. The Milwaukee Road, Northern Pacific, and Union Pacific all interchange with the G.N. There are three freight yards, a classification yard, an interchange yard, and a coach yard. Operations feature a 4 hour session with a 1/2 hour briefing, a 1/2 hour nid-session break and a fast clock of 2:1 which yields 6 hours of "train time". Several jobs can be handled as sit-down jobs but most are not. The layout has most track laid and operational. Although there are buildings, much scenery has not yet been started. We use Operations Road Show flagmen in multiple uniforms for each different road and subdivision.