Name: Danforth, Hadley & Northern RR
Layout owner: Ken Chick
Scale: N (1:160)
Size: 38 x 52 feet
Prototype: freelanced, based on Northern Pacific
Locale: Central Montana
Era: 1954
Style: walkaround
Mainline run: 400 feet
Minimum radius: 24″ (main), 20″ (branch)
Minimum turnout: no. 5 (main), no. 4 (industrial spurs)
Maximum grade: 1.5 percent (main), 2.25 percent (branch), 3 percent (logging)
Benchwork: L-girder, with plywood and spline subroadbed
Height: 52″ to 62″
Roadbed: cork on 1⁄2″ Homasote
Track: code 55 (main) and code 40 (logging line) flextrack, with hand-built turnouts and crossings
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board and Bragdon Enterprises Geodesic Scenery
Backdrop: painted on walls and aluminum sheet
Control: NCE DCC
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2018. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
