Name: Piney Fork RR
Layout Owner: Seth Gartner
Scale: HO scale (1:87.1)
Size: 23 x 31 feet
Prototype: New York Central
Locale: eastern Ohio (Minerva to Dillonvale)
Era: early 1960s
Style: multilevel, walk in
Mainline run: 260 feet
Minimum radius: 24″
Minimum turnout: no. 4 (industries), o. 5 (yardns), no. 6 (main line)
Maximum grade: 2.5 percent
Benchwork: open grid
Height: 32″ to 60″
Roadbed: 1⁄4″ cork and 1⁄8″ Vinylbed
Track: flextrack, code 83 (main line) and code 70 (sidings)
Scenery: Sculptamold over masking tape applied to a web of cardboard strips
Backdrop: painted 1⁄8″ tempered hardboard
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the August 2018 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
