Name: Rio Grande Southern, Lizard Head Division
Layout owner: Gregg Condon
Scale: HOn3 (1:87.1 proportion, 3-foot gauge)
Size: 17 x 40 feet
Prototype: Rio Grande Southern RR
Locale: Southwestern Colorado
Era: September 1947
Style: walk-in
Mainline Run: 125 feet
Minimum Radius: 20”
Minimum Turnout: no. 4
Maximum Grade: 3 percent
Benchwork: open grid
Height: 42″ to 56″
Roadbed: Homasote and N scale cork roadbed
Track: Micro Engineering code 70 and code 55 flextrack, Peco code 70 in hidden track, some handlaid
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board and cloth shell
Backdrop: hand-painted and photo backdrops from LARC Products
Control: Digitrax Zephyr Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2019. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
