Name: Denver & Rio Grande Western
Layout owner: Pat Gerstle
Scale: Sn3 (1:64 proportion, 3-foot gauge)
Size: 8 x 16 feet
Prototype: Denver & Rio Grande Western
Era: 1940s
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 24 feet
Minimum radius: 30″
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 2 percent
Benchwork: L-girder
Height: 50″
Roadbed: Homasote
Track: about 80 percent handlaid code 70, remainder is flextrack; Railway Engineering turnouts
Scenery: plaster cloth and lightweight Hydrocal over wadded newspaper or extruded-foam insulation board
Backdrop: tempered hardboard
Control: PBL Foreground Sound System 1
This track plan was originally published in the March 2016 Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a copy of the track plan.