Name: The Placerville Branch
Layout owner: Tom Ebert
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 11 x 27 feet
Prototype: Southern Pacific
Locale: Northern California foothills
Era: 1930s
Style: double-deck continuous-climb walkaround
Mainline run: 110 feet
Minimum radius: 24″
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 2 percent
Benchwork: L-girder and open-grid
Height: 34″ (lower staging) to 62″
Roadbed: cork
Track: Micro Engineering code 70
Scenery: plaster cloth over cardboard web
Backdrop: painted on drywall and tempered hardboard
Control: NCE Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2020. See a PDF version of this by clicking here.
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