How To Track Plan Database The HO scale Pennsylvania RR Apple Gap layout

The HO scale Pennsylvania RR Apple Gap layout

By Mitch Horner | October 3, 2024

| Last updated on February 18, 2026


This HO scale layout changes from 1870 to 1915 to 1959

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Facts and features

Name: Pennsylvania RR
Scale: HO (1:87)
Size: 6′-8″ x 12′-6″
Prototype: freelanced, inspired by PRR
Locale: northeastern Pennsylvania
Era: changeable between 1870-1915, 1916-1942, and 1943-1959
Style: island
Mainline run: 31 feet
Minimum radius: 36.5″
Minimum turnout: No. 6
Maximum grade: none (flat)
Benchwork: tabletop
Height: 5112
Roadbed: cork
Track: Micro Engineering flexible code 83
Scenery: foam board and Kingspan underlayment on 3 4” medium density fiberboard; Woodland Scenics Shaper Sheet
Backdrop: commercial photo backdrops on tempered hardboard
Control: MRC Master I DC block control

A model railroad tracplan with a man standing at the layout at its bottom left corner

 

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