1:72 Colorado & Southern Clear Creek District

Name: Colorado & Southern Clear Creek District
Layout owner: Doug Tagsold
Scale: 1:72
Size: 30 x 40 feet
Prototype: C&S Clear Creek District
Locale: Denver west into the Rocky Mountains
Period: 1920s
Style: double-deck linear walkaround (roll-around)
Mainline run: 450 feet plus 150-foot branch line
Minimum radius: 24″
Minimum turnout: no.6
Maximum grade: 3 percent
Train length: 5 to 7 cars (4 to 6 feet)
Benchwork: open grid
Height: 30″ to 70″
Roadbed: cork on extruded-­foam insulation board
Track: code 70 and 83 flextrack with re-spaced ties
Scenery: plaster gauze over screen, hand-carved rockwork
Backdrop: drywall and aluminum sheet

Control: CVP Products Easy DCC with wireless throttles

This track plan originally appeared in Model Railroad Planning 2018.