How To Track Plan Database The HO scale Boston & Maine layout

The HO scale Boston & Maine layout

By Mitch Horner | August 5, 2025

This 13 x 34-foot HO scale model railroad is based on the Boston & Maine in eastern New Hampshire circa 1909

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Facts and features

Name: Boston & Maine
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 13′-0″ x 34′-9″
Prototype: Boston & Maine
Locale: Five villages of Wakefield, N.H.
Era: 1909
Style: around-the-walls
Mainline run: approximately 90 feet
Minimum radius: 18″
Minimum turnout: No. 4
Maximum grade: Less than 1%
Benchwork: manufactured truss joists with 1 x 4 L-girders and plywood top
Height: 54″
Roadbed: 1∕2″ Homasote
Track: Peco code 83 flextrack and Tillig Elite turnouts
Scenery: cardboard lattice and plaster gauze
Backdrop: photos and hand-painted
Control: NCE Digital Command Control

The track plan for the HO scale Boston & Maine model railroad layout

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