HO scale Baltimore and Ohio Southwest, Ohio Division

Name: Baltimore & Ohio Southwest
Layout owner: Carl Griffin
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 14 x 29 feet
Prototype: Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, New York Central
Locale: Southeastern Ohio
Era: 1964
Style: multi-deck walkaround
Mainline run: 243 feet
Minimum radius: 24″
Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main), no. 4 (yards)
Maximum grade: 2.6 percent
Benchwork: L-girder
Height: 27″ (lower staging) to 54″
Roadbed: cork on 1⁄2″ plywood
Track: Atlas code 100 flextrack
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board and plaster cloth over cardboard forms
Backdrop: painted on tempered hardboard

Control: Digitrax DCC

This track plan originally appeared in the April 2019 Model Railroader. Click on the link below to download a PDF of the plan.