Chesapeake & Ohio Cabin Creek Branch

Track plan at a glance Name: Chesapeake & Ohio Cabin Creek Branch Scale: O (1:48) Size: 19 x 30 feet Theme: coal hauling branch line with logging and a sawmill Period: 1949 Style: walk-in, around-the-walls Mainline run: 70 feet Minimum radii: 38″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 5 percent up to sawmill, main line […]

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City Edge

Track plan at a glance Name: City Edge Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 24 x 40 feet Theme: fictional urban railroad based on locations in Chicago and St. Louis Era: 1950 to present day Style: around the walls Mainline run: 110 feet Minimum radius: 38″ on the main line and 22″ in the warehouse district Minimum […]

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Cliff Coutinho’s Old Colony & South Shore

Track plan at a glance 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 Period: 1920 to 1940 Style: walkaround Mainline run: 200 feet Minimum radius: 36″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 1 percent Originally appeared in the […]

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Columbia Valley & Western

Track plan at a glance Name: Columbia Valley & Western Scale: S (1:64) Size: 18 x 19 feet Prototype: free-lanced Period: 1957 Style: walkaround Mainline run: 95 feet Minimum radius: 29″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2 percent Originally appeared in the February 2001 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download […]

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Coon Creek Lumber Co.

Track plan at a glance Name: Coon Creek Lumber Co. Scale: O (1:48) narrow gauge Size: 21 x 25 feet Prototype: various logging railroads Period: 1925 Style: liner walkaround Mainline run: 265 feet Minimum radius: narrow gauge 36″, standard gauge 65″ Minimum turnout: no. 5 Maximum grade: 8 percent Originally appeared in the March 2003 […]

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Crystal River District

Track plan at a glance Name: Crystal River District Scale: HO (1:87.1) Originally appeared in the July 2003 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF of this trackplan […]

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Cumberland Amalgamated Southern Ry.

Track plan at a glance Name: Cumberland Amalgamated Southern Ry. Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 12′-0″ x 20′-10″ Theme: Canadian freight and passenger trains Period: 1925-40 Style: modular (16 modules) Minimum radius: 19″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Originally appeared in the October 2001 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDFof this […]

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Cunningham’s Gap in HO

Track plan at a glance Name: Cunningham’s Gap in HO Scale: HO Size: 10 x 11 feet Minimum radius: 24″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Originally appeared in the March 2003 issue of Model Railroader. Also appeared in 102 Realistic Track Plans. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan […]

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Cunningham’s Gap in N

Track plan at a glanceName: Cunningham’s Gap in NScale: NPlan using two 36″ x 80″ interior hollow-core doors12″ gridOriginally appeared in the March 2003 issue of Model Railroader.Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan […]

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Dakota Northern RR

Track plan at a glanceName: Dakota Northern Scale: N (1:160)Size: 12 x 13½ feetPrototype: free-lance, based on Great Northern branch linePeriod: 1975Style: shelf with peninsulaMainline run: 69 feet (2.1 scale miles)Minimum radius: 15″Minimum turnout: no. 4Maximum grade: 1.5 percentOriginally appeared in the April 2000 issue of Model Railroader. Also appeared in 102 Realistic Track Plans.Click […]

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Delaware & Hudson

Track plan at a glanceName: Delaware & HudsonScale: N (1:160)Originally appeared in the September 2001 issue of Model Railroader.Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan […]

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Durlin Branch

Track plan at a glance Name: Durlin Branch Scale: On3 (1:48, three-foot narrow gauge) Size: 18′-6″ x 27′-6″ Prototype: free-lanced D&RGW branch line Period: 1930s rolling stock, 1980s scenery, and 1920s operating pattern Style: walkaround, partial double deck Mainline run: 166 feet Minimum radii: 40″ main line and sidings, 36″ on two spurs Minimum turnout: […]

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