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Name: Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie RR
Layout owner: Bob Wundrock
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 17 x 24 feet with a 2 x 9-foot interchange yard
Prototype: Soo Line
Locale: northwestern Wisconsin
Era: 1950 to 1955
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 100 feet
Minimum radius: 30″ (main), 18″ (branch)
Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main), no. 4 (yards)
Maximum grade: 2 percent
Benchwork: L-shaped supports cantilvered from walls, some L-girder
Height: 50″ to 58″
Roadbed: 1⁄2″ homasote on 1⁄2″ plywood
Track: Atlas code 100 flextrack with Atlas and Peco turnouts
Scenery: plaster hardshell
Backdrop: painted 1⁄8″ hardboard with photos
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the September 2019 Model Railroader.
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