How To Track Plan Database The N scale Buffalo & Pittsburgh layout

The N scale Buffalo & Pittsburgh layout

By Mitch Horner | May 7, 2025

This double-deck N scale layout is set in the late 1980s

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Facts and features

Name: Buffalo & Pittsburgh
Scale: N (1:160)
Size: 27 x 31 feet plus 14 x 14 feet
Prototype: Buffalo & Pittsburgh
Locale: western New York and Pennsylvania
Era: 1988
Style: multi-deck walk-in
Mainline run: 187 feet
Minimum radius: 16″
Minimum turnout: No. 5
Maximum grade: 2.5%
Benchwork: open grid and modular
Height: 44″ to 62″
Roadbed: cork over plywood and extruded-foam insulation board
Track: Atlas code 55
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board
Backdrop: tempered hardboard
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
The first page of the track plan for the Buffalo and Pittsburgh layout
The second page of the track plan for the Buffalo and Pittsburgh layout
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