Name: Baltimore & Ohio
Layout owner: John Listermann
Scale: HO (1:87.1 )
Size: 32 x 35 feet
Prototype: freelanced, inspired by the B&O
Locale: West Virginia
Era: early 1950s
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 500 feet
Minimum radius: 24″
Minimum turnout: no. 4
Maximum grade: 2.7 percent
Benchwork: L-girder and open grid
Height: 36″ to 54″
Roadbed: 1⁄2″ Celotex roadbed with 3⁄4″ wafer board subroadbed
Track: code 100 flextrack
Scenery: Structo-Lite soaked paper towels over cardboard webbing
Backdrops: hand-painted on hardboard
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the February 2018 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
