HO scale Southern Pacific Shasta Route

Name: Southern Pacific Shasta Route
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 24 x 26 feet
Prototype: Southern Pacific
Locale: Northern California
Period: mid-1950s
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 230 feet
Minimum radius: 36″
Minimum turnout: no. 8 (main), no. 6 (yards)
Maximum grade: 11⁄2 percent
Benchwork: open grid and L-girder
Height: 49″ to 58″
Roadbed: Homasote on T-girder
Track: Atlas code 83 flextrack with Atlas and Walthers turnouts
Scenery: plaster-soaked paper towels over metal screening
Backdrop: painted tempered hardboard

Control: direct current cab control

This track plan was originally published in Great Model Railroads 2016. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.