Track plan at a glance Name: Hillside Scale: HO Originally appeared in the September 2000 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Hillside
Scale: HO Scale
Housatonic RR
Track plan at a glance Name: Housatonic RR Scale: HO (1:87) Originally appeared in the May 2003 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Kanawha Creek Ry.
Track plan at a glance Name: Kanawha Creek Ry. Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 7 x 13 feet Theme: short line Period: early 1950s Style: island Mainline run: 21 feet Minimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum grade: 2.5 percent Originally appeared in the November 2000 issue of Model Railroader. Also appeared in 102 Realistic […]
Kevin Shanahan’s Union Pacific
Track plan at a glance Name: Union Pacific Scale: HO Size: 16 x 26 feet Prototype: UP main line Period: 1955-1965 Style: around the walls with duckunder entrance Mainline run: 220 feet Minimum radius: 38″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2.5 percent Originally appeared in the July 2000 issue of Model Railroader. Click on […]
Maggie’s Cove
Track plan at a glanceName: Maggie’s CoveScale: HO (1:87)Size: 4 x 8 feetTheme: logging and waterfrontPeriod: mid-1950sStyle: islandMainline run: 20 feetMinimum radius: 17″ (inside tunnel)Minimum turnout: no. 4Maximum grade: noneOriginally appeared in the February 2001 issue of Model Railroader.Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Metro Belt & Terminal
Track plan at a glanceName: Metro Belt & TerminalScale: HOSize: 8′-6″ x 11′-9″Minimum radius: 22″Minimum turnout: no. 6Originally appeared in the April 2001 issue of Model Railroader. Also appeared in 102 Realistic Track Plans.Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Mid-Atlantic & Western Ry.
Track plan at a glanceName: Mid-Atlantic & Western Ry.Size: 2 x 10 feetScale: HO (1:87)Theme: free-lance Class 1 railroad in an urban settingPeriod: fall 1950Style: shelfMainline run: 10 feetMinimum radius: 24″Minimum turnout: handlaid nos. 5 to 7Originally appeared in the May 2001 issue of Model Railroader. Also appeared in 102 Realistic Track Plans.Click on the […]
Missouri, Kansas & Quincy
Track plan at a glance Name: Missouri, Kansas & Quincy Scale: HO (1:87) Prototype: free-lance, based on the Santa Fe Period: contemporary Style: walkaround Mainline run: 85 feet Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 3.7 percent Originally appeared in the October 2000 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download […]
MoPac Arkansas Division
Track plan at a glance Name: MoPac Arkansas Division Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 28 x 36 feet Prototype: Missouri Pacific Period: 1980s Style: around the walls Mainline run: 168 feet Minimum radius: 28″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 in yards, no. 6 on main Maximum grade: 1.5 percent Originally appeared in the June 2000 issue of […]
North Coast RR, Buckhorn Logging Co.
Track plan at a glance Name: North Coast RR, Buckhorn Logging Co. Scale: HOn3 (1:87) Size: 11′-6″ x 20′-0″ Prototype: North Pacific Coast RR Period: 1904 Style: walk-in shelf with peninsula Mainline run: 131 feet Minimum radius: 22″ (18″ logging) Minimum turnout: no. 6 (no. 4 on logging line) Maximum grade: 3.5 percent (8.5 percent […]
Roque Bluffs
Track plan at a glance Name: Roque Bluffs Minimum radius: 33″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 3 percent Originally appeared in the October 2003 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan […]
San Lorenzo Southern
Track plan at a glance Name: San Lorenzo Southern Scale: HOn3 Size: 13 x 22 feet Prototype: free-lanced narrow gauge Period: 1930-1945 Style: around the walls, walk-in Minimum radius: 24″ main line, 18″ on branch line Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2 percent main line, 3 percent on branch line Originally appeared in the […]
