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Name: Milwaukee Road’s Beer Line
Layout owner: Model Railroader staff
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Prototype: Milwaukee Road’s Chestnut Street Line
Locale: Milwaukee, Wis.
Era: 1947
Style: Sectional
Mainline run: 24 feet (original layout); 10 feet (addition); 34 feet (total)
Minimum radius: 18″
Minimum turnout: no. 4
Maximum grade: none
Benchwork: sectional tables
Height: 44″
Roadbed: cork
Track: Atlas and Peco code 83 flextrack and turnouts
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board and Sculptamold
Control: NCE Digital Command Control (DCC)
This track plan originally appeared in the January 2017 Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
Based on the around the walls layout style of the original Beer Line, where does the addition attach? Looking forward to reading the forth coming articles on the addition as well as the 1000th issue. Happy Holidays!
What happened to North Side Lumber and Fuel? I worked there in 1947 during my vacation from UW. I was on your earlier versions.
Great Ideas Come in Small Packages: Glad to see projects for small spaces. Although I like to see some of the large layouts, for me and others with either limited means, or space, or time, or new to the hobby, smaller layouts make a lot of sense. And the techniques are useful for all scales and layout sizes. I grew up reading the small Dec / Jan project layouts in the 1950s in MR, many around 4×6 in HO, or similar, and never tired of re-reading and referring to them when I built mine, for MR plans, and also small. Thanks for this project, even if it is a module / expansion to another (but both are small). Much appreciated.