Track plan at a glance
Name: New Haven on Cape Cod
Layout designer: John Pryke
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 12 x 20 feet
Prototype: New York, New Haven & Hartford RR
Era: 1948
Style: walkaround
Mainline run: 56 feet
Minimum radius: 32″ (passenger), 26″ (freight-only track)
Minimum turnout: no. 4
Maximum grade: 1.5 percent
Originally appeared in the October 2006 issue of Model Railroader. Also appeared in 102 Realistic Track Plans.
Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan
Name: New Haven on Cape Cod
Layout designer: John Pryke
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 12 x 20 feet
Prototype: New York, New Haven & Hartford RR
Era: 1948
Style: walkaround
Mainline run: 56 feet
Minimum radius: 32″ (passenger), 26″ (freight-only track)
Minimum turnout: no. 4
Maximum grade: 1.5 percent
Originally appeared in the October 2006 issue of Model Railroader. Also appeared in 102 Realistic Track Plans.
Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan
This was a great layout. The scenery was completed all the way from Boston to the Cape Cod Canal bridge when I saw it in person. John also had done some work from Orleans to P-Town, but the middle was still plywood and benchwork. The local model train club guys used to come over and operate it with John and they had a fun operation set up. My lone contribution was the giving John a copy of the plans for the Cape Cod Vertical Lift Bridge.
The Union Freight RR part of this plan has been preserved and is in the local club down on the Cape. This was featured in MR several times over the years, and was collected in one of Kalmbach’s books. I highly recommend it.
R.I.P. John Pryke.
Great layout in a small space