How To Track Plan Database HO scale Baltimore & Ohio

HO scale Baltimore & Ohio

By Angela Cotey | December 22, 2017

| Last updated on January 18, 2021


Download this track plan from the February 2018 Model Railroader

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Name: Baltimore & Ohio
Layout owner: John Listermann
Scale: HO (1:87.1 )
Size: 32 x 35 feet
Prototype: freelanced, inspired by the B&O
Locale: West Virginia
Era: early 1950s
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 500 feet
Minimum radius: 24″
Minimum turnout: no. 4
Maximum grade: 2.7 percent
Benchwork: L-girder and open grid
Height: 36″ to 54″
Roadbed: 1⁄2″ Celotex roadbed with 3⁄4″ wafer board subroadbed
Track: code 100 flextrack
Scenery: Structo-Lite soaked paper towels over cardboard webbing
Backdrops: hand-painted on hardboard

Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control

This track plan originally appeared in the February 2018 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.

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