| Last updated on January 19, 2021
Download this track plan from Model Railroad Planning
Name: The “Michigan”
Layout designer: Jim Six
Scale: HO (1:87)
Size: 12′-3″ x 44′-0″
Prototype: New York Central’s Michigan District
Locale: northeastern Indiana
Period: 1955
Style: around the walls
Mainline run: 116 feet
Minimum radius: 42″
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 0.25 percent
Originally appeared in Model Railroad Planning 2012.
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Actually, this plan first appearing in Model Railroad Planning 2010, pp. 46-47.
Where do you turn the trains around ? It's a big oval that is nice to do continous running of long trains, I'm doing something similar to this on the 64 inch level of my tri level, with the middle used for yards and lower level, 40 inch the industrial swiching. There should be a wye or loop to turn trains.
what a beautiful layout like the rest of the ones you mates design!!!
I have a 14' x 18' Patio that I want to enclose and I'm searching for a track plan that will work for me. This is my 1st time looking into the Layout section of your Magazine. With so many layout plans to look through, I know my winter days ahead will be rewarded with Model Railroader's useful databanks. Thanks for being a modelers encyclopedia. Charlie