Name: Frisco Lines Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 15 x 35 feet Prototype: St. Louis-San Francisco Locale: Missouri and Oklahoma Era: early 1950s Style: walkaround Mainline run: 200 feet Minimum radius: 30″ (main), 24″ (sidings and yard) Minimum turnout: no. 8 (main), no. 4 (sidings and yards) Maximum grade: 1 percent Originally appeared in the October […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Thirty years ago on September 26, 1979, construction began on Model Railroader Senior Editor Jim Hediger’s influential HO scale Ohio Southern. Jim describes the concept and some of the challenges building his HO layout. Learn how a three and a half hour lunch […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Thirty years ago on September 26, 1979, construction began on Model Railroader Senior Editor Jim Hediger’s influential HO scale Ohio Southern. Jim describes the concept and some of the challenges building his HO layout. Learn how a three and a half hour lunch […]
Name: Great Northern Ry. Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 21 x 35 feet Theme: freelanced GN Locale: Pacific Northwest Date: September 15, 1955 Style: walkaround Mainline run: 344 feet Minimum radius: 32″ (main), 18″ (industrial areas) Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main), no. 4 (industrial) Maximum grade: 2.5 percent (main), 3.5 percent (branch lines) Originally appeared in […]
Name: Franklin & South Manchester RR Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 23 x 42 feet Prototype: free-lanced, based on Boston & Albany, Boston & Maine, and New York, New Haven & Hartford Locale: New England Period: 1935 Style: walkaround Minimum radius: 30″ Maximum grade: 2 percent Scenery construction: hydrocal on nylon screen over plywood forms Originally […]
Name: Cat Mountain & Santa Fe Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 29′-6″ x 35′-6″ Prototype: Fourth District, Plains Division, AT&SF Ry. Locale: Lubbock to Slaton, Texas Era: 1978 Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 210 feet Minimum radius: 32″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: none Originally appeared in the August 2009 issue of Model Railroader. See […]
Name: Soo Line Stevens Point Division and Manitowoc Branch Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 33 x 42 feet Prototype: Soo Line Locale: central Wisconsin Era: 1954 Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 170 feet Minimum radius: 28″ main, 22″ branch Minimum turnout: no. 6 main, no. 5 branch Maximum grade: 2 percent Originally appeared in the July […]
Name: South Shasta Lines Scale: O (1:48) Size: 42 x 60 feet Prototype: Southern Pacific Locale: Gerber to Dunsmuir, Calif. Era: 1940s to 1950s Style: Walk-in Mainline run: 450 feet Minimum radius: 72″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 4 percent Originally appeared in the July 2009 issue of Model Railroader. See a PDF version […]
Name: Denver & Rio Grande Western and Rio Grande Southern Scale: On3 (1:48 proportion, three-foot gauge) Size: 34 x 60 feet Prototype: D&RGW and RGS Locale: Southern Colo. and northern New Mexico Era: First half of 1900s Style: Walk in with duckunders Mainline run: 300 feet Minimum radius: 72″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 See a […]
Name: Colorado & Southern Ohio Creek Extension Scale: On3 and On21/2 (1:48) Size: 28′-3″ x 29′-8″ plus 28′-0″ branch (Ruby-Irwin) Prototype: On3 Colorado & Southern with freelanced On2½ Elk Mountain Timber Co. Ry. Locale: Gunnison County, Colo. Period: late summer of 1942 Style: walkaround Mainline run: 100 feet Minimum radius: 37″ with easements Minimum turnout: […]
Name: Old Colony & South Shore RR Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 24′-6″ x 33′-6″ with an 8′-0″ x 16′-6″ staging area Prototype: Boston & Maine RR Locale: New England Era: 1920 to 1940 Style: walkaround Mainline run: 200 feet Minimum radius: 36″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 1 percent Originally appeared in Great Model […]
Name: Somerset County Traction System, Easton & Amboy RR, and Harter Felsen Quarry Co. Scale: O (1:48) and On21/2 Size: 32 x 40 feet with 10 x 20 foot extension in crawl space Prototype: freelance Locale: north central New Jersey Period: September 1957 Style: walkaround Mainline run: 350 feet (SCTS), 225 feet (E&A), and 35 […]
