Name: PRR Elmira Branch
Layout owner: Anthony Daniele
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 22 x 45 feet
Prototype: Pennsylvania RR, Erie RR, New York Central, and Lehigh Valley
Locale: upstate New York
Era: 1956
Style: walkaround
Mainline run: 249 feet (to Canandaigua); 281 feet (to Sodus Yard)
Minimum radius: 36″, 30″ (hidden)
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 2 percent
Benchwork: sectional open grid
Height: 36″ to 59″
Roadbed: Homabed on 3⁄4″ plywood
Track: Micro Engineering code 83 (main line) and code 70 (sidings); Atlas code 100 (staging)
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board and Sculptamold
Backdrop: hand painted on walls and tempered hardboard
Control: NCE Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2020. See a PDF version of this by clicking here.
