Facts and features
Name: Nickel Plate Road, St. Louis Division, Third Sub.
Scale: HO (1:87)
Size: 24′-6″ x 60′-6″
Prototype: Nickel Plate Road
Locale: west-central Indiana, east-central Illinois
Era: fall 1954
Style: multi-deck
Mainline run: 500 feet
Minimum radius: 42″
Minimum turnout: No. 6 (yard), No. 8 (main)
Maximum grade: 1.5 percent
Benchwork: open grid; plywood shelf
Height: 43″ to 681∕2″
Roadbed: Homasote and Homabed
Track: Micro Engineering codes 55 and 70
Scenery: 3∕8″ extruded-foam insulation board; plaster-cloth on screen
Backdrop: 1∕8″ tempered hardboard with digital images
Control: NCE radio Digital Command Control
