| Last updated on January 19, 2021
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Name: Santa Fe, 1951
Layout designer: Gary Hoover
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 24 x 49 feet plus 13 x 19 feet
Prototype: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry.
Locale: Chicago to California
Era: 1951
Style: walkaround
Mainline run: 150 feet
Minimum radius: 30″
Minimum turnout: no. 8
Maximum grade: 2.5 percent
Originally appeared in the December 2011 issue of Model Railroader.
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Would love to incorporate some of this layout into my dream layout. Time to get the old graff paper, compass, pencils and stuff out!
This is a fantastic layout, paying tribute to the memory of those who rode those rails, like my Grandmother, from L.A. to Chicago to New Brunswick NJ. Thank you for the inspiration to build my dream layout!