Name: New York Central
Layout owner: Mike Havens
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 18 x 25 feet
Prototype: NYC
Locale: Illinois and Indiana
Era: 1950 to mid-1960s
Style: walk-in double-deck
Mainline run: 360 feet
Minimum radius: 30″
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 1.25 percent
Benchwork: L-girder
Height: 45″
Roadbed: Homasote on 3⁄4″ plywood, some cork
Track: code 83 (visible track), code 100 (staging)
Scenery: 2″ Styrofoam
Backdrop: hand-painted 1⁄8″ chlorinated polyvinyl chloride
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the October 2016 Model Railroader. Click on the link to download the track plan.
