Name: Oregon Middle Division
Layout owner: Gary Randall
Scale: N (1:160)
Size: 15 x 17 feet
Prototype: freelance, based on Union Pacific
Locale: Pacific Northwest
Era: none specified
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 150 feet
Minimum radius: 16″
Minimum turnout: no. 5
Maximum grade: 3 percent
Benchwork: L-girder with spline subroadbed
Layout Height: 39″ to 42″
Roadbed: cork
Track: Atlas code 55 flextrack
Scenery: cardboard mesh covered with plaster cloth and drywall compound
Backdrop: hand-painted on tempered hardboard
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the June 2017 Model Railroader. Click the link to download a PDF of the track plan.
I love the design, but I can’t see how staging can connect to the mainline without 4+% grades. The left side goes from 48″ down to 39″ under the Portland yard. The right side goes from 39″ at hidden staging up to 47″ going into Portland yard.
HI guys. Love the plans, but it would be an enhancement if there were a few photos of the actual layouts…to get a feel of the layout and see it as a real thing, not just a sketch on a screen. Give the minds eye something to plan from.
Love your work.
great layout……………..