How To Track Plan Database The Sn3 Rio Grande Southern layout

The Sn3 Rio Grande Southern layout

By Mitch Horner | January 16, 2025

| Last updated on February 18, 2026


The Sn3 Rio Grande Southern layout is set in Colorado in the 1930s

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Facts and features

Name: Rio Grande Southern
Scale: Sn3 (1:64 proportion, 3-foot gauge track)
Size: 22 x 22 feet
Prototype: Rio Grande Southern
Locale: Colorado
Era: 1930
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 154 feet
Minimum radius: 36″
Minimum turnout: No. 6
Maximum grade: 4%
Benchwork: open grid
Height: 34″ to 56″
Roadbed: plywood and Homasote
Tack: code 70 flextrack with scratchbuilt turnouts
Scenery: plaster over chicken wire
Backdrop: photos
Control: NCE Digital Command Control

 

The track plan for the Sn3 Rio Grande Southern layout

 

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