Name: Story City Branch
Layout owner: Clark Propst
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 13 x 20 feet
Prototype: Minneapolis & St. Louis
Locale: central Iowa
Era: September–October 1949-’50
Style: linear walk-in
Mainline run: 70 feet plus staging
Minimum radius: 28″
Minimum turnout: no. 5
Maximum grade: none
Train length: 3 feet
Benchwork: L-girder with extended-foam insulation board or 1 x 2 frame with Homasote
Height: 54″
Roadbed: Cascade Models milled Homasote
Track: code 55
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board
Backdrop: photos on tempered hardboard
Control: Digitrax DCC
This track plan originally appeared in Model Railroad Planning 2018. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
