The International Transportation Conglomerate (ITC) is the parent company for various shortline and industrial railroads previously operated as separate companies. These include The Nook Switching Services (NOOK), Petra Branch (PETRA), Brazilian Sub (RFFSA), Ruston Light Railway (RUST), and Pacific National Australia (PN).

The various ITC railroads are operated as divisions of the parent company and routing to various divisions is done by way of using the ITC reporting mark in the division brackets. The main thing is that the ITC reporting mark is in the waybill. As long as the ITC reporting mark is in the routing in the waybill it will be tagged as an ITC related waybill.

Note that the Waypoint / Switchlist times on the ITC are all in UTC time, regardless of physical location.

Relevant Timezones:

• Cumberland,MD - EST - UTC-5 (5 hours behind UTC).
• Aldeia Sul / Porto Do Rio Sul,BR - UTC-3.
• Ruston,UK - UTC.
• Australia - AEST (eastern) - UTC+10 (10 hours ahead of UTC); ACST (Central) - UTC+9.5; AWST (Western) - UTC+8

ITC (NOOK) - The Nook, MD

In the ITC alternate universe, this is an industrial area.

As the name suggests it is an Inglenook track plan (3-2-2) representing a switching area somewhere in the valley between Cumberland, MD and Petra Junction, MD, about a "country mile" from the edge of the suburbs of Cumberland, MD. The trackage consists of a main track and 3 spurs, representing a freight transhipment and storage area. Two of the spurs will service the team / transhipment area, and another will act as a loco and / or caboose holding area. Rollingstock is generally limited to 40 foot length cars and 4 axle switchers. Era is undefined, but as 40 foot or less length cars and short switchers will be the norm it will likely have a 1950s / 60s feel to it.

As the track arrangement is in the form of team tracks any commodity can be shipped or received. There is a plant-based milk processing plant and cold storage warehouse in the industrial estate. Commodities that go through the team tracks include:

• Fruit & vegetables (stored in cold storage).
• General freight.
• Sugar (manufactured from cane).
• Livestock.
• Grain & nut storage. 
• Manufactured wood products.
• Farm machinery.
• Plant-based milks.
• Firewood
• Scrap metals

ITC (PETRA) - WM Petra Quarry Branch, MD

A 3-2-2 Inglenook-like track arrangement on the upper level of the same layout as The Nook depicting the terminus of a fictional Western Maryland branch line between Petra Junction and Petra. Mostly ships stone from the quarry, lumber from a local sawmill, and felled logs, but also receives fuel stored for local use, food commodities for a local pasty maker, and runs tourist trains. The branch is not very steep but has numerous sharp curves and so usually employs small 2 axle motive power, with the occasional small 4 axle switcher. The branch is mostly single track, except for the following: Freight spurs at Petra Quarry and Team Track. A storage siding at Petra East, a few miles from Petra - used for extra cars in inbound or outbound trains that are not able to fit in the Petra spurs. This is NOT usually used as a runaround track. Junctrion and storage spurs at Petra Jcn. Passenger depots are located at Petra Junctrion and Petra. Because of the lack of a runaround track, and a requirement to have a switcher on hand for local switching outside times there is a train at Petra, there is always a switcher at Petra. Era: undefined, but could very easily be anywhere between 1960s and 2000s. Closest non-ITC interchanges: Petra Junction, MD, Cumberland, MD. Rollingstcok limitations, up to 40 foot cars (due to sharp curves and low lateral clearances).

ITC(RUST) - Ruston Light Railway.

A standard guage light railway with interchange at Ruston Junction, on the Bristol - London,UK mainline. The railway runs a few passenger trains each way each day, and light freight services to / from Ruston Town. This layout is approximately 2x1 feet in size and fits in a plastic "under the bed" storage box. The layout models both ends of the railway, with buildings acting as scenic breaks between the two ends. Rollingstock is short British 4 wheel stock, and the motive power is two Ruston & Hornsby 48DS rail tractors. Era: 1960s - 1970s. Closest non-ITC interchange: Bristol, UK. Rollingstock limitations, short 4 wheel wagons and carriages (due to siding lengths).

ITC(RFFSA) - Rede Ferroviária Federal, Sociedade Anônima, Brazil

ITC(PN) - Australia

Various railway operations in Australia, mostly in the eastern states. These operaations are by auto train only, althouigh there may be a small layout built in the future for some switching operations.

ITC(JAPAN) - Sakana no shima ("Fish Island" in Japanese)

A fictional large-ish island located north east of Okinawa and south west of Kagoshima, in the East China Sea. The island has a passenger tram servce and freight service that share the same trackage.

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ITC (SJRY) - Oakland / Pittsburg, CA, and SRVR to Avon, CA. 

Taken over by Stephen Foster around March 2020.