How To Track Plan Database The HO scale Bishop Street Branch layout

The HO scale Bishop Street Branch layout

By Mitch Horner | November 25, 2022

This 10'-6" x 22'-0" HO scale walk-in layout is modeled after Portland, Maine in the 1990s

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Facts & features

Name: Bishop Street Branch
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 10′-6″ x 22′-0″
Prototypes:  Guilford/Pan Am Railways
Locale: Portland, Maine
Era: Late 1980s through the 1990s
Style: Walk-in
Mainline run: None
Minimum radius: 24”
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: None
Benchwork: Open grid
Height: 51″
Roadbed: 1⁄2″ birch plywood with N scale cork
Track: Micro Engineering code 70 on the branch, code 83 on the main
Backdrop: Painted walls
Control: NCE Power Pro-R wireless Digital Command Control

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The Bishop Street Branch layout track plan
The HO scale Bishop Street Branch layout

 

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