Name: St. George
Layout owner: John Ottman
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 12 x 16 feet
Prototype: freelanced, inspired by Louisville & Nashville, Norfolk & Western, Southern Ry., Wheeling & Lake Erie
Locale: Appalachian Mountains
Era: steam-to-diesel transition
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 70 feet
Minimum radius: 22″
Minimum turnout: no. 5
Maximum grade: 3 percent
Benchwork: L-girder
Height: 57″
Roadbed: cork
Track: Atlas code 83 flextrack
Scenery: Hydrocal over extruded-foam insulation board
Backdrop: painted drywall
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the June 2018 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
John, This photo shows the canal…The photo in the book shows a different layout. Please ask MRR to publish the one without the canan for down loading.. Thanks
Hi John,
I quite like the straightforward approach to your Track-plan, especially as it’s more akin to the type of layout & space available, here in the UK.
One thing that is sadly lacking from the MRR Article is no photo looking down onto the Loco Depots, i.e. taken viewed from the direction of the guy in the yellow-ochre shirt.
Could you forward a photo to MRR and they might post it with related Articles? I’d like to see the Depots.
Thank you.