Name: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy-Lines East
Scale: S (1:64)
Size: 19 x 30 feet
Prototype: semi-freelanced, inspired by CB&Q
Locale: Illinois
Era: late 1940s to early 1960s
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 312 feet
Minimum radius: 42″
Minimum turnout: no. 8
Maximum grade: 2 percent
Benchwork: L-girder
Height: 48″ to 56″
Roadbed: Homasote and cork
Track: code 100 flextrack (main), code 83 (branch), code 70 (yard)
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board, plaster cloth over cardboard web
Backdrop: tempered hardboard
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2016. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
This is a Great S-Scale Layout. Lots of Detail everywhere. It has a level of realism you seldom see in s gauge.