How To Track Plan Database The Northwestern Pacific Tiburon Yard in HO scale

The Northwestern Pacific Tiburon Yard in HO scale

By Mitch Horner | March 5, 2026

The layout is the center-piece display of the Rail-road & Ferry Depot Museum in Tiburon, Calif.

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Facts and features

Name: Northwestern Pacific RR Tiburon Rail Yard
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 13′-0″ x 26′-6″
Prototype: Northwestern Pacific RR
Locale: Tiburon, Calif.
Era: October 1909
Style: island
Mainline run: none
Minimum radius: none
Minimum turnout: No. 8
Maximum grade: none
Benchwork: 1 x 6 and 1 x 8 wood joists on steel angle with plywood layout surface
Height: 40″ to 58″
Roadbed: balsa over plywood
Track: code 83 flextrack
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board covered in local dirt
Backdrop: none
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control

A track plan for the Northwestern Pacific Tiburon Yard layout

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