The layout at a glance
Name: Laurium, Mohawk & Brockway
Layout owner: Larry Burk
Scale: On30 (1:48, 30″ track gauge)
Size: 27 x 38 feet
Prototype: freelanced
Locale: Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Era: 1935
Style: shelf
Mainline run: 150 feet
Minimum radius: 24″
Minimum turnout: no. 5
Maximum grade: 4 percent on switchback to lumber branch
Benchwork: cantilevered open grid
Height: 48″ to 55″
Roadbed: foam
Track: handlaid code 83
Scenery: foam board
Backdrop: Trackside Scenery photo backdrops
Control: NCE wireless DCC
This track plan originally appeared in the November 2020 issue of Model Railroader magazine. See a PDF version of this by clicking here.