Name: Clinchfield RR
Layout owner: Stuart Wrightson (original version designed by John Armstrong)
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 14 x 32 feet
Prototype: Clinchfield RR, CSX
Locale: From Elkhorn City, Ky.,to the Tennessee/North Carolina border
Era: Original plan, 1978; existing layout, present day
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 223 feet (original)
Minimum radius: 30″
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 2.3 percent
Benchwork: L-girder
Height: 42″ to 58″
Roadbed: cork
Track: Shinohara code 70, visible; Peco code 100, hidden
Scenery: plaster cloth over cardboard web
Backdrop: brush-painted on tempered hardboard
Control: Lenz DCC
This track plan originally appeared in the November 2018 Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF of the plan.
where is the john Armstrong recording (clinchfield rr) of layout description, mentioned in article in mr nov 2018?
Are the plans to the original layout MR built years ago available?