Name: Belfast & Vinehaven RR and
Portland & Mystic Line
Layout owner: Arnie Hall
Scale: HO and HOn3 (1:87.1)
Size: 25 x 40 feet
Prototype: Freelanced bridge line
Locale: New England coast
Era: mid-1940s to early 1950s
Style: around-the-walls
Mainline run: 110 feet
Minimum radius: 24″
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 2 percent
Benchwork: open grid (older sections) and L-girder (new areas)
Height: 58″
Roadbed: cork
Track: Peco and Atlas code 100 flextrack
Scenery: hardshell and extruded-foam insulation board
Backdrop: photos and painted
This track plan originally appeared in the May 2019 Model Railroader. Click on the link below to download a PDF of the plan.