The layout at a glance
Name: River Falls & Eastern Ry.
Layout designer/owner: Larry Hickman
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 28 x 38 feet
Prototype: Freelanced
Locale: West Virginia
Era: 1959 to ‘60
Style: Double-deck
Mainline run: 400 feet
Minimum radius: 24″
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 2.5 percent
Benchwork: open grid
Height: 42″ (lower level), 65″
(upper level)
Roadbed: Homasote
Track: code 100
Scenery: wire mesh covered with
plaster-impregnated gauze and
Hydrocal-soaked towels
Backdrop: painted tempered
hardboard
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the April 2016 Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a copy of the track plan.
