Facts & features
Name: C&O Monroe Division
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 21 x 23 feet
Prototype: C&O, Chessie System
Locale: Appalachia
Era: late 1960s-early ’70s
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 150 feet
Minimum radius: 30″ (main), 24″ (other tracks)
Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main), no. 4 (other tracks)
Maximum grade: 2.5 percent
Benchwork: L-girder
Height: 38″ to 52″
Roadbed: cork
Track: Atlas code 100 flextrack
Scenery: plaster gauze over cardboard webbing or foam board
Backdrop: painted tempered hardboard
Control: MRC Prodigy Digital Command Control
