The layout at a glance
Name: Piermont Division
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 60 x 70 feet
Theme: freelanced
Locale: Pennsylvania, New York State, northwestern New Jersey
Era: early 1950s
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: more than 1,400 feet
Minimum radius: 38″
Minimum turnout: no. 10 (main and sidings), no. 8 (yards)
Maximum grade: 1.5 percent (main), 4 percent (mine branch)
Benchwork: open-grid
Height: 54″ median
Roadbed: Homasote over spline
Track: code 83 flextrack
Scenery: glueshell
Backdrop: painted 1⁄8″ tempered hardboard
Control: NCE Digital Command Control
Name: Piermont Division
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 60 x 70 feet
Theme: freelanced
Locale: Pennsylvania, New York State, northwestern New Jersey
Era: early 1950s
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: more than 1,400 feet
Minimum radius: 38″
Minimum turnout: no. 10 (main and sidings), no. 8 (yards)
Maximum grade: 1.5 percent (main), 4 percent (mine branch)
Benchwork: open-grid
Height: 54″ median
Roadbed: Homasote over spline
Track: code 83 flextrack
Scenery: glueshell
Backdrop: painted 1⁄8″ tempered hardboard
Control: NCE Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the February 2020 Model Railroader. See a PDF version of this by clicking here.
This is my favorite HO train layout as of January 2020 because it has multiple turntables, multiple freight yards and have mainlines which run through the entire length of the layout and which basically have no dead ends.
Wow… what a fantastic layout!