Name: Pacific & Eastern
Layout owner: Rogue Valley Model Railroad Club
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 26 x 52 feet
Prototype: semi-freelanced
Locale: southern Oregon
Era: 1989
Style: double-deck walk-in
Mainline run: 531 feet
Minimum radius: 34″
Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main), no. 4 (sidings)
Maximum grade: 2.5 percent (main), 4 percent (logging branch)
Benchwork: engineered wood I-beams and 1 x 4 open-grid
Height: 39″ to 62″
Roadbed: cork on plywood
Track: code 83 flextrack (main), code 70 (industrial sidings)
Scenery: plaster shell over cardboard mesh or extruded-foam insulation board
Backdrop: hand-painted
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2018. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
