Name: Hudson, Delaware & Lehigh
Layout owner: Gary Schaff
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 13′-6″ x 35′-0″
Prototype: Central RR of New Jersey and Pennsylvania RR
Locale: Jersey City, N.J., to Mauch Chunk, Pa.
Era: early 1950s
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: CNJ, 170 feet; PRR, 108 feet
Minimum radius: 27″
Minimum turnout: no. 5
Maximum grade: 3.5 percent
Benchwork: plywood frame with “cookie-cutter” plywood subroadbed
Height: 40″ to 45″
Roadbed: cork on extruded-foam insulation board
Track: Peco code 83
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board and sprayed-on foam
Backdrop: self-adhesive photos on Sintra
Control: NCE Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2020. See a PDF version of this by clicking here.
Excellent layout, a lot of compact railroading that does not feel spaghetti bowl. This is obviously due to the site chosen. Wharf fronts can allow more railroading.