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Name: Conrail’s Onondaga Cutoff
Layout owner: Dave Abeles
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 20′-8″ x 30′-6″
Prototype: Conrail
Locale: upstate New York
Era: 1990s
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 250 feet
Minimum radius: 30″ (main), 22″ (yards and sidings)
Minimum turnout: no. 8 (main), no. 5 (yards and sidings)
Maximum grade: 2 percent (main), 8 percent (M&E)
Train length: 45 feet
Benchwork: L-girder and open grid
Height: 46″ to 59″
Roadbed: Woodland Scenics Track-Bed
Track: code 83
Scenery: plaster-soaked gauze over cardboard web
Backdrop: 1/8″ hardboard
Control: NCE Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in Model Railroad Planning 2018.
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