Name: Pennsylvania RR Nassau Division
Layout owner: John Sethian
Scale: O (1:48)
Size: 21 x 31 feet
Prototype: Pennsylvania RR electrified lines
Locale: New Jersey and Pennsylvania
Era: 1955 to 1957
Style: walk-in with duckunder
Mainline run: 110 feet
Minimum radius: 57″ (visible), 44″ (hidden)
Minimum turnout: no. 71⁄2
Maximum grade: 1.8 percent
Benchwork: open-grid with inverted L-girders
Height: 45″ to 54″
Roadbed: 3⁄8″ milled Homasote, 3⁄4″ plywood, or 1″ extruded-foam insulation board
Track: Atlas code 148 flextrack and turnouts
Scenery: layered and carved 2″ extruded-foam insulation board covered with plaster cloth laid over poly fiber clumps
Backdrop: Painted 1⁄8″ tempered hardboard with coved corners
Control: NCE Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the November 2017 Model Railroader. Click the link to download a PDF of the track plan.
