Name: Claremont Docks RR
Layout owner: Howard R. Lloyd
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 12 x 17 feet
Prototype: freelanced, inspired by Lehigh Valley
Locale: Jersey City, N.J.
Era: September 1944
Style: walkaround
Mainline run: 39 feet
Minimum turnout: no. 4
Minimum radius: 18″
Maximum grade: 3 percent
Benchwork: open grid and L-girder
Height: 53″ to 56.25″
Roadbed: Homasote
Track: code 83
Scenery: “ground goop” and ground foam on plywood
Backdrop: tempered hardboard
Control: wireless NCE Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the July 2017 Model Railroader. Click the link to download a PDF of the track plan.
