Facts & features
Name: Pacific Southern Railway
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 46 x 96 feet
Prototype: Freelanced
Locale: Generic
Era: Flexible
Style: Walkaround
Mainline run: 1,000 feet
Minimum radius: 48″ (main), 36″ (branch)
Minimum turnout: no. 4, some hand-laid
Maximum grade: 1.3% (main), 3.1% (branch)
Benchwork: L-girder
Height: 36″ to 60″
Roadbed: Cork on 1⁄2″ plywood
Track: Visible track: handlaid code 100 (main), code 83 (yards), code 70 (branchline).
Hidden track: Code 100 flextrack
Scenery: Plaster hardshell or plaster cloth over screen or cardboard lattice
Backdrop: Multiple layers of building flats in front of printed photos
Control: NCE Digital Command Control no. 4, some hand-laid
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