The layout at a glance
Name: Stockton & Copperopolis RR
Layout designer: Don Ball
Scale: HO (1:87)
Size: 37′-0″ x 40′-3″
Prototype: Stockton & Copperopolis RR
Locale: California
Era: 1895
Style: linear walkaround
Mainline run: 240 feet
Branchline run: 100 feet
Minimum radius: 30″
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 2 percent
Train length: 7 feet
Benchwork: open-grid
Height: 48″ to 56″
Roadbed: foam tape
Track: Micro Engineering code 55 flextrack with handlaid turnouts
Scenery: plaster gauze over cardboard forms
Backdrop: tempered hardboard
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in Model Railroad Planning 2011.
The link does not go to a PDF of the Stockton & Copperopolis, but to “Danefield modules track plan.”