Name: Nitro Pass & Okanagan
Layout owner: Don Weixl
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 12′-6″ x 15′-4″
Prototype: Freelanced
Locale: southern British Columbia
Period: 1955-1965
Style: double -deck walk-in
Mainline run: 120 feet
Minimum radius: 24″
Minimum turnout: no. 4
Maximum grade: 2 percent
Benchwork: L-girder (lower level), open grid (upper)
Height: 42″ to 62″
Roadbed: Cork on 5⁄8″ plywood, Homasote in yards
Track: Micro Engineering code 55 and 70 (visible track), Atlas code 100 (staging)
Scenery: plaster over cardboard webbing, natural rock and sand
Backdrop: Photos or painted on tempered hardboard
Control: Keller Engineering Onboard analog command control
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2018. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
