Name: San Juan del Oro
Layout owner: Eduardo Romo
Scale: HOn3 (1:87.1 proportion, 3-foot gauge track)
Size: 6 x 10 feet
Prototype: freelanced
Locale: Southwest Colorado
Era: 1932
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 64 feet in two independent loops
Minimum radius: 18″
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 2 percent
Benchwork: L-girder
Height: 49″ to 76″
Roadbed: Homasote on plywood
Track: Shinohara code 70
Scenery: hardshell and extruded-foam insulation board
Backdrop: photo print on tempered hardboard
Control: direct current
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2017. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
For those of us that have DCC locos AND DC locos, this layout concept is fantastic. I plan to follow it with my HOn3 planning.
I really like that HOn3 San Juan del Oro layout coming up in December…..it is a very clever design with the 2 separate circuits – can’t wait to see images. Kind of reminds me of some of Malcolm Furlow’s great layouts in the 70s and 80s…..but sadly that artist of layouts seems to have disappeared…. Many thanks and keep up the great work! Gareth