Name: East Broad Top RR
Scale: HOn3 (1:87, 3-foot-gauge track)
Size: 15′-8″ x 19′-8″
Prototype: East Broad Top RR
Locale: south-central Pennsylvania
Period: 1926
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 110 feet
Minimum radius: 18″
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 4 percent
Benchwork: L-girder
Height: 48″ to 52″
Roadbed: Homasote on plywood
Track: Micro Engineering code 70 flextrack, Shinohara and Micro Engineering turnouts
Scenery: plaster cloth or paper towels dipped in Hydrocal, supported by screen wire or crumpled paper
Backdrop: tempered hardboard, Foamcore
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2016. Click on the link to download the PDF of this track plan.
