Track plan at a glance Name: Cascade Mountain RR Scale: Z (1:220) Size: 4 x 8 feet Prototype: free-lanced, influenced by Great Northern and Western Pacific Period: 1950s Style: island Minimum radius: 6″ Maximum grade: 2.5 percent Originally appeared in the 1997 issue of Great Model Railroads. Click on the link to download a PDF […]
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Lilliput Logger
Track plan at a glance Name: Lilliput Logger Scale: HO Originally appeared in the August 1998 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Montandon Branch
Track plan at a glance Name: Montandon Branch Scale: N Size: 2 x 4 feet Minimum radius: 9¾’ Minimum turnout: no. 5 Originally appeared in the 2002 issue of Great Model Railroads. Also appeared in 102 Realistic Track Plans. Montandon Branch […]
Reading Co.
Track plan at a glance Name: Reading Co. Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 2½ x 17½ feet (city scene) Theme: urban industrial switching Period: late 1930s, early 1940s Style: shelf with backdrop Minimum radius: 36″ (main line) Minimum turnout: no. 6 on main line; no. 4 for industrial sidings Originally appeared in the 2003 issue of […]
Timber City & Northwestern RR
Track plan at a glance Name: Timber City & Northwestern Scale: HO Originally appeared in the 1997 issue of Great Model Railroads. Click here to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Walla Walla Valley Ry.
Track plan at a glance Name: Walla Walla Valley Ry. Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 10 x 11 feet Prototype: Walla Walla Valley Ry. Period: 1968 Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 24 feet Minimum radius: 15″ Minimum turnout: Peco medium radius Maximum grade: none Originally appeared in the 2005 issue of Great Model Railroads. Click here […]
Appalachian Central
Track plan at a glance Name: Appalachian Central Scale: N (1:160) Size: 5′-7″ x 7′-0″ Prototype: free-lanced Period: today Style: island Mainline run: 22 feet Minimum radius: 9¾” Maximum grade: 2 percent Originally appeared in the January 2000 issue of Model Railroader. Also appeared in 102 Realistic Track Plans. Click on the link to […]
Appalachian Central RR
Track plan at a glance Name: Appalachian Central RR Scale: N (1:160) Originally appeared in the April 2001 issue of Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Benedict & Wexford
Track plan at a glance Name: Benedict & Wexford Scale: HO Size: 10 x 10 Minimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum grade: 4 percent Originally appeared in the December 2000 issue of Model Railroader. Also appeared in 102 Realistic Track Plans. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Cascade, Wash.
Track plan at a glance Name: Cascade, Wash. Scale: N (1:160) Size: 7′-3″ x 8′-9″ Prototype: Great Northern and Northern Pacific Period: mid-1950s Style: L-shaped folded loop, movable Mainline run: 58 feet Minimum radius: 11″ hidden; 14½” main line Manimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2 percent Originally appeared in the October 2000 issue of […]
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 […]
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 […]