Name: Leadville & Red Cliff (LARC)
Layout designer: Bill and Steve Brown
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 25 x 40 feet
Prototype: Union Pacific (lower level), Rio Grande Southern and Denver & Rio Grande (upper)
Locale: Central and Southern Colorado
Era: Modern day (lower level), 1949 (upper)
Style: walkaround
Mainline run: 300 feet (standard gauge), 75 feet (narrow gauge, not counting helix)
Minimum radius: 32″ (standard gauge), 18″ (narrow gauge)
Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main), no. 4 (industries)
Maximum grade: none (lower level), 4 percent (upper)
Originally appeared in the November 2014 Model Railroader. Click on the link to download the PDF of this track plan.
