Name: Cajon Pass
Layout owner: Pat Smith
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 33′-2″ x 40′-7″
Prototype: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Union Pacific; and Southern Pacific
Locale: Southern California
Era: Early 1950s to early 1960s
strong>Style: walkaround
Mainline run: 475 feet
Minimum Radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 5
Maximum grade: 3 percent Benchwork: open grid
Height: 48″ to 591⁄2″
Roadbed: cork
Track: Atlas code 100 flextrack
Scenery: cardboard strips with fabric screening and plaster cloth
Backdrop: painted on wallboard and 1⁄8″ tempered hardboard
Control: Digitrax Super Chief Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2020. See a PDF version of this by clicking here.
What an ambitious project, I enjoyed the article very much. A follow up might be worth doing, the gradient was not covered and could only be determined by noting the bench heights. Some photos of the Pass section would look great, especially the locations that are commonly used by foamers like me. Perhaps the curve west of Summit and Sullivan’s Curve. Well done Pat.