Name: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific River Subdivision
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 30 x 60 feet
Locale: Eastern Minnesota along the Mississippi River
Period: Early fall 1950
Style: walkaround
Mainline run: 195 feet (per westbound and eastbound tracks)
Minimum radius: 36″
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 2 percent (in helix)
Benchwork: L girder, open grid, and plywood shelf
Height: 49″ to 51 1/2″ (lower staging, 39 1/2″)
Roadbed: Woodland Scenics Track-Bed
Track: Peco code 83 flextrack (main), Micro Engineering code 70 flextrack (sidings, yards, and spurs)
Scenery: cardboard lattice covered with plaster gauze
Backdrop: 1/8″ tempered hardboard
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2016. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
