My Pike is the Plywood Empire Route (name stolen from a very many years ago HO project Pike in one of the magazines, IIRC Railroad Magazine).
The PER is a once-around-the-room (12.5' X 11.5') loop of Fastrack. It is a mostly switching pike which I operate loosely themed on the Oil Creek & Titusville RR. All track switches and curves are O72 except the O36 curve with switch hidden under a mountain.
Motive power is any of several MTH PS3 SW1500s running under DCS enabled by a DCS Remote Commander (the one that looks like a teevee remote).
Scenery is.....largely schematic 
at this time and consists in part of 117 B&W enlargements taken by my Dad from the time I was about 4yr old until I graduated High School. Rolling stock is Fallen Flags so between the photos of trains and train trips on the walls and the familiar old liveries the train room is always a trip down memory lane for me.
An operating session starts with the daily switching-job coming from Interchange to Town with the day's consist and ends with the Dinner Train making several loops. It gets tied-down for the night in front of the old Depot and the next operating session starts with it being spotted out of the way before the crew runs yesterday's consist to Interchange.
