How To Track Plan Database O scale Nickel Plate Road/Canandaigua Southern RR

O scale Nickel Plate Road/Canandaigua Southern RR

By Angela Cotey | October 5, 2015

| Last updated on January 18, 2021


Download this track plan from Great Model Railroads

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Name: Nickel Plate Road, Kentucky Western Division and Canandaigua Southern RR, Southern Division
Scale: O (1:48)
Size: 18 x 89 feet
Prototype: Nickel Plate Road and freelanced
Locale: southern Ohio and western Pennsylvania
Period: May 1958
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 1,000 feet
Minimum radius: 64″ (main line), 56″ (staging loops)
Maximum grade: 2.5 percent
Benchwork: various
Height: 28″ to 78″
Roadbed: mostly Homasote
Track: mostly handlaid, steel rail on wood ties; some steel rail on Atlas plastic ties
Scenery: various
Backdrop: painted on walls

Control: NCE Digital Command Control

This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2016. Click on the link to download the PDF of this track plan. 

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