Facts and features
Name: Milwaukee, Racine & Troy
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 28′-3″ x 54′-9″
Prototype: freelanced bridge line
Locale: southeastern Wisconsin
Era: 1980s and 1990s
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: approximately 200 feet
Minimum radius: 36″
Minimum turnout: No. 6 (main), No. 4 (spurs)
Maximum grade: 3% eastbound, 1.5% westbound (5.5% on ramp)
Benchwork: 1 x 4 open grid
Height: 493∕4” to 671∕2“
Roadbed: cork on 3∕4” plywood
Track: code 83 fl extrack
Scenery: plaster over cardboard webbing and Sculptamold over extruded-foam insulation board
Backdrop: painted tempered hardboard, photos at Milwaukee Harbor and Port Marquette Yard
Control: CVP and NCE Digital Command Control (MR&T), Model Rectifier Corp. DCC (Wisconsin & Southern)
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 28′-3″ x 54′-9″
Prototype: freelanced bridge line
Locale: southeastern Wisconsin
Era: 1980s and 1990s
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: approximately 200 feet
Minimum radius: 36″
Minimum turnout: No. 6 (main), No. 4 (spurs)
Maximum grade: 3% eastbound, 1.5% westbound (5.5% on ramp)
Benchwork: 1 x 4 open grid
Height: 493∕4” to 671∕2“
Roadbed: cork on 3∕4” plywood
Track: code 83 fl extrack
Scenery: plaster over cardboard webbing and Sculptamold over extruded-foam insulation board
Backdrop: painted tempered hardboard, photos at Milwaukee Harbor and Port Marquette Yard
Control: CVP and NCE Digital Command Control (MR&T), Model Rectifier Corp. DCC (Wisconsin & Southern)
