How To Track Plan Database Mike O’Connell’s O fine scale Pacific Railway & Navigation Co. layout

Mike O’Connell’s O fine scale Pacific Railway & Navigation Co. layout

By Nastassia Putz | July 14, 2022

| Last updated on July 29, 2022

Based on the prototype railroad locals called the "Punk, Rotten and Nasty"

Facts & features

Name: Pacific Railway & Navigation Co.
Scale: Proto:48 (O fine scale)
Size: 40 x 60 feet
Prototype: Northern Pacific; Great Northern; Spokane, Portland & Seattle; and PR&N
Locale: Pacific Northwest
Era: mid-1950s
Style: walk-in multi-deck
Mainline run: approx. 1,200 feet
Minimum radius: 84″
Minimum turnout: no. 7 (spurs), no. 8 (main)
Maximum grade: 1.75 percent
Benchwork: modular
Height: 40″ to 90″
Roadbed: cork
Track: handlaid code 100 and code 125 rail with cast-resin pre-ballasted ties
Scenery: plaster cloth and Sculptamold
Backdrop: hand-painted on 1/8″ tempered hardboard
Control: NCE DCC with wireless throttles

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PR&N Spokane layout track plan — Mike O’Connell’s O fine scale Pacific Ry. & Navigation Co. layout.

2 thoughts on “Mike O’Connell’s O fine scale Pacific Railway & Navigation Co. layout”

Rod Schneidmiller says:

July 28, 2022 at 12:32 am

Greetings,

Is there any info or track plan of the rest of Mike O’Connell’s model railroad?

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1. Nastassia Putz says:
  
  July 29, 2022 at 12:45 pm
  
  Did you read the feature in the September 2022 issue?

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