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Name: Montana Rail Link Scale: N (1:160) Size: 13′-0″ x 18′-9″ Prototype: Montana Rail Link Locale: Montana Era: current Style: walk-in Mainline run: 144 feet Minimum radius: 16½” Minimum turnouts: Peco long-(main) and medium-radius (yards) Maximum grade: 2 percent Originally appeared in the May 2009 issue of Model Railroader. See a PDF version of this […]
Name: Puffer Bridge Lines Scale: HO scale (1:87.1) Size: 14 x 25 feet Prototype: freelanced Locale: freelanced United States Era: contemporary Style: walk around Mainline run: 85 feet Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main), no. 4 (yards) Maximum grade: none Originally appeared in the February 2009 issue of Model Railroader. See a PDF […]
Q On many Union Pacific refrigerated boxcars, the reporting mark “ARMN” appears below the UP shield. What railroad is that?– Kevin Margan, Madison, Wis. A Normally any reporting mark not ending is “X” indeed stands for a railroad company (“X” signifying privately owned cars), and UP, like several Class Is, still uses initials of railroads […]
Name: Union Pacific Rochelle Subdivision Scale: N (1:160) Size: 14 x 28 feet Prototype: Union Pacific Locale: Northern Illinois Era: present day Style: walkaround Mainline run: 165 feet Minimum radius: 20″ (main), 13″ (staging) Minimum turnout: handlaid, no. 6 Maximum grade: 1.1 percent Originally appeared in the November 2008 issue of Model Railroader. See a […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Smoky Valley RR Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 9 x 11 Prototype: ET&WNC, L&N, Southern, and others Era: 1950s to present Mainline run: 40 feet Minimum radius: 20″ Minimum turnouts: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2.2 percent Originally appeared in the February 2008 issue of Model Railroader. Also appeared in 102 […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Wisconsin & Southern Troy Branch Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 22 x 33 feet, including 16′-0″ staging yard Prototype: Wisconsin & Southern Era: present day Style: shelf Mainline run: 36 feet Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 5 Maximum grade: none Originally appeared in the January 2008 issue of Model […]
Track plan at a glance Name: SBB Gotthard Line Scale: Z (1:220) Size: 30 x 50 feet Prototype: Swiss Federal Rys. Era: contemporary Style: island Mainline run: 310 feet Minimum radius: 10″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2.5 percent Originally appeared in the December 2007 issue of Model Railroader. See a PDF version of […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Wildcat Central Scale: HO (1:87) Originally appeared in the January 2001 issue of Model Railroader. Click here to download a PDF of this track plan […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Arkansas & Missouri Scale: N (1:160) Size: 9 x 16 feet Era: present Style: along-the-walls shelf Minimum radius: 10″ Minimum turnout: no. 8 Maximum grade: 6 percent Originally appeared in the February 1999 issue of Model Railroader. Also appeared in 102 Realistic Track Plans. See a PDF version of […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Union Pacific Hillsboro Division Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 20′-0″ x 20′-0″ Prototype: Union Pacific and Portland & Western RRs Period: 1990 to the present Style: shelf Mainline run: 50 feet Minimum radius: 36″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Originally appeared in the October 2007 issue of Model Railroader. Click here […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Chillicothe Sub Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 23 x 62 feet Prototype: Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Belt Railway of Chicago Period: present day Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 300 feet Minimum radii: 32″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2 percent Originally appeared in the February 2002 issue of […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Snow Creek RR Scale: Gn3 (1:20 and 1:22.5) Size: 50 x 50 feet Prototype: narrow gauge tourist railroad Period: present day Style: outdoor model railroad Mainline run: 425 feet Minimum radius: 5 feet Maximum grade: 2.5 percent Originally appeared in the June 2002 issue of Model Railroader. See a […]
