Name: Johnstown & Gerryville
Layout owner: John Travis
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 13 x 37 with 5 x 17 staging area
Prototype: freelanced, inspired by Pennsylvania RR
Locale: southwestern Pennsylvania
Era: 1953
Mainline run: 240 feet
Minimum radius: 30″
Minimum turnout: no. 5
Maximum grade: 2.5 percent
Benchwork: L girder and open grid
Height: 42″to 59″
Roadbed: cork (main line), Homasote (industries and yards)
Track: Atlas code 100 flextrack
Scenery: plaster cloth over cardboard strips, crumpled newspaper or extruded-foam insulation board
Backdrop: Painted drywall and tempered hardboard
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the April 2018 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
