How To Track Plan Database The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4th Street Spur layout in HO scale

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4th Street Spur layout in HO scale

By Mitch Horner | April 11, 2024

| Last updated on February 18, 2026


This HO scale layout is set in Los Angeles in the early 1950s

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Name: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4th Street Spur
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 1′-6″ x 8′-0″
Prototype: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Locale: downtown Los Angeles
Era: 1950-1953
Style: shelf
Mainline run: 8 feet
Minimum turnout: No. 4
Maximum grade: none
Benchwork: 1⁄2″ plywood secured to wall with shelf brackets
Height: 48″
Roadbed: 3⁄32″ basswood
Track: Atlas code 83
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board and homemade ground cover mixture
Backdrop: wall painted sky blue
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control

4th Street Spur layout: A shelf layout track plan

 

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