Name: River City
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 13 x 23 feet
Prototype: Minneapolis & St. Louis Ry.
Locale: Mason City, Iowa
Period: first week of May 1954
Style: walkaround
Mainline run: 90 feet
Minimum radius: 18″
Minimum turnout: no. 5
Maximum grade: none
Benchwork: open frame
Height: 42″
Roadbed: Homasote on plywood
Track: Peco code 75 (main), Micro Engineering code 70 and 55 (yards)
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board
Backdrop: painted on wood veneer and 1/8″ tempered hardboard
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2016. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
