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Track plan at a glanceName: Reading Co. Shamokin DivisionScale: HO (1:87.1)Size: 30′-6″ x 40′-0″Era: 1952-57Style: linear walkaroundMainline run: 280 feetMinimum radius: 30″Minimum turnout: no. 4Maximum grade: 2.6 percentOriginally appeared in the March 2006 issue of Model Railroader.Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Track plan at a glanceName: Red Rock NorthernScale: HO (1:87.1)Size: 9 x 11 feetPrototype: freelanced short line in rural AmericaEra: variableStyle: around-the-walls with liftout sectionMainline run: 68 feetMinimum radius: 24″Minimum turnout: no. 5Maximum grade: 2 percentOriginally appeared in the June 2007 issue of Model Railroader. Also appeared in 102 Realistic Track Plans.Click on the link […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Sand Patch Layout designer: Robert Sprague Scale: HO Size: 12′-10″ x 13′-3″ Originally appeared in the May 2005 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Southern Pacific Los Angeles Division Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 12 x 19 feet Prototype: Southern Pacific Era: early 1950s Style: walkaround Mainline run: 85 feet Minimum radii: 33″ main line, 28″ sidings, 24″ industrial spurs Minimum turnouts: no. 6 main line, no. 5 sidings Maximum grade: none Originally appeared […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Pacific & Idaho Northern Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 12′-0″ x 15′-0″ with 3′-6″ x 7′-0″ extension Theme: turn-of-the-past-century branch line Period: 1900 to 1908 Style: walkaround Mainline run: 105 feet Minimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum grade: 5 percent Originally appeared in the April 2005 issue of […]
Track plan at a glance Name: The Webster Groves & Fenton RR Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 16 x 27 feet with a 7 x 13-foot extension Prototype: free-lanced bridge line Period: 1970-1990 Style: around-the-walls with peninsula Mainline run: 117′-5″ Minimum radius: 30″ on main, 28″ on sidings Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2.5 percent […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Turtle Creek Branch Scale: HO Size: 2 x 6 feet Originally appeared in the January 2005 issue of Model Railroader. Click here to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Union Freight RR Scale: HO Originally appeared in the June 2005 issue of Model Railroader. Click here to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Track plan at a glance Name: UP’s Daneville and Donner River Subdivisions Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 11′-6″ x 22′-0″ Prototype: Union Pacific, with Burlington Northern Santa Fe trackage rights Period: present Mainline run: 59 feet (excluding staging) Minimum radius: 33″ Minimum turnout: No. 8 (main) and no. 6 (sidings and yards) Maximum grade: 2.6 percent […]
Track plan at a glance Name: West Virginia Northern Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 16′-8″ x 20’8″ with 11′-0″ x 2′-0″ and 4′-0″ x 11’0″ off-layout staging Theme: freelance, based on the Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Period: summer 1952 Style: walkaround Mainline run: 126 feet Minimum radius: 30″ (main line) Minimum turnouts: no. 6 (main line), […]
The railway at a glance Name: The R&F Railroad Size: 110′ x 165′ (1/3 acre) Scales: 1:20.3 to 1:32 Gauge: Nº 1 (45mm) Era: 1920s through the present Theme: Predominately western railroads, including Santa Fe, Union Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande Western Age: 19 years Length of track: Total, 3,000′; double 500′ mainlines Type of […]
TSOMO DRIFT. It’s the usual problem on a single-track railway—waiting for traffic coming the other way. A great horseshoe curve links Tsomo Drift with Orange River, although, as the crow flies, they are very close, so the driver of the Baldwin 2-8-0, Nº 724, can see the reason for this long delay. Over at Orange […]
