How To Track Plan Database The Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie RR layout in HO scale

The Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie RR layout in HO scale

By Mitch Horner | June 10, 2025

A veteran modeler shares tips on how he enhanced his new HO scale layout

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Facts and features

Name: Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie RR
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 8 x 30 feet
Prototype: Soo Line
Locale: northwestern Wisconsin
Era: early 1950s
Style: walkaround
Mainline run: 50 feet
Minimum radius: 30″ (main), 18″ (branch)
Minimum turnout: No. 5 (main), No. 4 (branch)
Maximum grade: none
Benchwork: L-girder
Height: 44″
Roadbed:1∕2″ plywood covered with 1∕2″ Homasote
Track: Atlas code 100 flextrack, Peco and Atlas turnouts
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board for elevations
Backdrop: photos on 1∕8″ tempered hardboard
Control: Digitrax Digital Command Control
A model railroad track plan for the Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie RR layout
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