Name: Boston & Maine
Layout owner: Thomas Oxnard
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 18 x 28 feet
Prototype: freelanced, inspired by the Boston & Maine
Locale: Boston, Seacoast region of New Hampshire into the mountains
Era: 1953
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 194 feet
Minimum radius: 20″
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 3 percent
Benchwork: L-girder and open-grid, freestanding on 2 x 2 legs; tabletop for yard and city areas
Height: 42″to 48″
Roadbed: Homabed and cork
Track: code 83 and 100 flextrack and handlaid
Scenery: carved extruded-foam insulation board
Backdrop: photos on 1⁄8″ tempered hardboard or .040″ styrene sheet
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control with duplex radio wireless throttles
This layout originally appeared in the May 2020 issue of Model Railroader magazine. See a PDF version of this by clicking here.
