Name: Santa Fe, Colorado & Western RR
Layout owner: Scale Rails club
Scale: N (1:87.1) and HOn3 (HO scale, 3 foot track gauge)
Size: 27 x 42 feet
Prototype: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and Denver & Rio Grande Western
Locale: California and Colorado
Era: 1955-1965
Style: multi-level, walk-in
Mainline run: 731 feet
Minimum radius: 128 inches (HO), 18 inches (HOn3)
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 2.2 percent up, 3.2 percent down
Benchwork: open grid
Height: 21″ (staging), 32″ to 35″ (lower deck), 54″ to 62″ (upper deck)
Roadbed: cork
Track: code 83 flextrack (HO), code 70 (HOn3)
Scenery: Sculptamold on plaster cloth over extruded-foam insulation board forms
Backdrop: painted on tempered hardboard, wallboard, and concrete block walls
Control: Digitrax DCC
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2017. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
I visited this layout in Ft Myers Fl, the people at scalerails could not have been nicer, if you are in the area stop by and see this great layout..