Name: Otter Creek & Ripton
Layout owner: David McLeod
Scale: On30 (1:48, 30″ gauge)
Size: 12 x 15 feet
Theme: freelanced New England narrow gauge short line
Locale: central Vermont
Era: 1912
Style: around-the-walls with peninsula
Mainline run: 61 feet
Minimum radius: 24″ (main), 18″ (branch)
Minimum turnout: Peco medium radius
Maximum grade: 4.5 percent (main), 6 percent (branch)
Benchwork: L-girder
Height: 51″ to 58″
Roadbed: 1⁄2″ plywood and Homasote
Track: Micro Engineering code 100 flextrack with Peco turnouts
Scenery: hardshell over cardboard strips
Backdrop: hand-painted on tempered hardboard
Control: NCE DCC with wireless throttles
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2018. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
Great looking layout! Loved the thre stall enginehouse. Was it scratch built? Mogul number 2, need more pictures and how you built it. Great photos, need more! ??