Name: Western Pacific RR
Layout owner: Jim Pendley
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 20 x 46 feet
Prototype: Western Pacific
Locale: California’s Sierra Nevada
Time periods: 1960s, early 1970s, early 1980s, mid-1980s
Style: walkaround
Mainline run: 220 feet
Minimum radius: 30″
Minimum turnout: no. 8 (main), no. 6 (yards)
Maximum grade: 1.5 percent
Benchwork: L-girder and open grid
Height: 52″ to 58″
Roadbed: spline, Homasote, and foam board
Track: handlaid code 83 with Shinohara turnouts
Scenery: hardshell
Backdrop: painted on tempered hardboard
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the December 2016 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
