Name: Chessie System Pennsylvania Division
Layout owner: Doug Gainer
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 16′-0″ x 27′-6″ (excluding main staging yard)
Prototype: Chessie System
Locales: Pittsburgh, Lake Erie port, West Virginia coalfield
Era: 1972 to 1992
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 60 feet
Minimum radius: 40″
Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main line), no. 4 (yards and branch line)
Maximum grade: 3 percent
Benchwork: open grid
Height: 50″ to 54″
Roadbed: cork and Woodland Scenics Track-Bed foam strips
Track: Atlas and Peco code 100 flextrack
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board
Control: Digitrax DCC
This track plan originally appeared in the June 2016 Model Railroader. Click on the link to download the track plan.
Love that layout but something about seeing Pitcairn on the Chessie just doesn’t seem right!