Name: Virginia & Truckee RR
Layout owner: Donn Tolley
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 21′-7″ x 21′-10″
Prototype: Virginia & Truckee RR
Locale: northwestern Nevada
Era: 1888
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 1541⁄2 feet
Minimum radius: 18″
Minimum turnout: no. 3 stub-ended
Maximum grade: 2 percent (V&T), 6 percent (Lake Tahoe RR)
Benchwork: L-girder
Height: 42″ to 53″ Roadbed: Homasote
Track: handlaid and code 83 flextrack
Scenery: hardshell Backdrop: 1⁄8″ hardboard painted blue with Instant Horizons backdrops
Control: wireless battery-operated and Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the April 2020 issue of Model Railroader. See a PDF version of this by clicking here.
