Name: Rock Island, Clay Center Branch
Layout owner: Ken Jenkins
Scale: HO (1:87:1)
Size: 27 x 55 feet
Prototype: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific RR
Locale: Northeast Kansas
Era: fall 1969
Style: around the walls
Mainline run: 150 feet
Minimum radius: 25″
Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main), no. 5 (yards and spurs)
Maximum grade: 1.25 percent
Benchwork: plywood on L-girder
Roadbed: cork
Height: 46″ to 50″
Track: code 83 (main), code 55 and 70 (sidings and spurs)
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board
Backdrop: painted concrete wall and some tempered hardboard
Control: Digitrax DCC
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2017. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
