Name: Central California RR
Layout designers: Robert Jackson and Brian Jackson
Scale: S (1:64)
Size: 27 x 39 feet
Prototype: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (diesel) and Southern Pacific (steam and diesel)
Locale: Fresno to Sacramento, Calif.
Era: 1955-1959
Style: walkaround
Height: 55″ to 58″
Benchwork: L-girder
Roadbed: Homabed
Track: code 100 flextrack and handlaid
Mainline run: 270 feet
Minimum radius: 36″
Minimum turnout: no. 4
Maximum grade: 0.4 percent
Originally appeared in the September 2013 Model Railroader. Click on the link to download the PDF of this track plan.
Interesting track plan!…….how could I convert this to HO scale
There wasn't a finer modeler than Bob Jackson, especially in S Scale. Bob also at one time edited the NASG Dispatch and was a historian of sorts and wrote the history of 3/16th modeling for the association. Thank heavens for his son Brian, who carries on Bob's modeling work with their Central California model railroad. Also, a thank you to Bob Werre for his excellent photography.