HO scale Chicago & North Western Ry.

Name: Chicago & North Western Ry.
Layout owner: Don Drum
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 27 x 43 feet
Prototype: C&NW Lakeshore Division, Ashland District (Eland, Wis., to Ashland, Wis.)
Locale: northern Wisconsin
Era: summer 1956 to 1960
Style: walk-in
Benchwork: L-girder and open grid
Height: 49″ to 55″
Roadbed: 1⁄2″ plywood, 1⁄2″ Homasote, and 1⁄4″ cork
Track: code 100, 70, and 55 Atlas, Lambert, and Railcraft
Mainline run: 333 feet
Minimum radius: 27″
Turnout minimum: no. 4
Maximum grade: 1.25 percent
Scenery construction: Hydrocal-soaked paper towels over chicken wire and screen forms
Backdrop: painted 1⁄8″ tempered hardboard

Control: NCE Digital Command Control

This track plan originally appeared in the October 2016 Model Railroader. Click on the link to download the track plan.