How To Track Plan Database Sunset Valley Oregon System

Sunset Valley Oregon System

By Angela Cotey | September 17, 2007

| Last updated on January 19, 2021


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Track plan at a glance
Name: Sunset Valley Oregon System
Scale: HO (1:87.1 proportion)
Size: 55 x 66 feet
Prototype: Southern Pacific plus SP&S, UP, NP, GN, NP Terminal, LP&N, Fruit Growers Supply, Coos Bay Lumber Co., Hanna Nickel Mine, and freelanced SV
Period: 1955
Style: four-level linear walkaround
Mainline run: 500 feet Portland-Dunsmuir, 185 feet Seattle-Portland, total of 1,140 feet in all routes
Minimum radius: 34″ main, 28″ branch, 24″ industrial and logging
Minimum turnout: no. 5 industrial, 6 yards, 8 main line
Maximum grade: 3.5 percent main, 8 percent logging
Originally appeared in the February 2006 issue of Model Railroader.

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