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Name: The Omaha Road Layout designer: Michael Tylick Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 4 x 8 feet Theme: Midwestern riverfront city Locale: Nebraska Era: 1960s-present Style: island Mainline run: 20 feet Minimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum grade: none Originally appeared in the January 2013 Model Railroader. Click on the link to download the […]
Name: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy LaCrosse Division Layout designer: Pat Lyons Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 15 x 40 feet Prototype: CB&Q Locale: Upper Mississippi Valley Era: 1950s to late 1960s Style: freestanding walkaround island Mainline run: 141 feet Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: Peco small radius Maximum grade: none Originally appeared in the December 2012 […]
Name: Louisville & Wadley RR and Wadley Southern Ry. Layout designer: Steve Flanigan Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 13′-2″ x 15′-1″ Prototype: L&W, WS, and Central of Georgia Locale: East-central Georgia Era: 1930s to 1950s Style: walk-in Mainline run: 59 feet Minimum radius: 20″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum grade: none Originally appeared in the December […]
As trackworkers tend to a frozen switch, Northern Pacific 4-6-6-4 No. 5122 prepares to head east out of Livingston, Mont., with a freight sometime in the late 1940s. NP’s Livingston shops, still used by today’s Montana Rail Link, are visible at right. C. W. Jernstrom photo […]
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It may look like a tiny handrail, but this is actually an AM antenna installed on some 1940s-era passenger cars. Michael Belcher Q What is the pipe on part of the roof of some 1940s-era diner and lounge cars as shown in Michael Belcher’s photo on page 90 of the April 2011 issue?— Randall Keils, […]
Name: Cedar River & Iowa Central Ry., “the Crandic Route” Layout designer: Patrick G. Lana Scale: N (1:160) Size: 18 x 31 feet Theme: proto-freelanced based on Midwestern railroads Locale: Iowa and Missouri Era: August 10, 1968 Style: linear walkaround island Mainline run: 148 feet Minimum radius: 24″ on mainline, 18″ on secondary tracks, 12″ […]
Name: Huntington & Hartford RR Layout designer: Bob Collett Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 16 x 24 feet Prototype: freelanced and New York, New Haven & Hartford Locale: central Connecticut’s Naugatuck Valley Era: mid-1950s Style: walk-in Mainline run: 230 feet Minimum radius: 30″ (main), 20″ (sidings) Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main), no. 4 (some sidings) Maximum […]
Name: Louisville & Nashville Layout designer: Perry Simpson Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 34 x 42 feet Prototype: Louisville & Nashville Locale: northern and eastern Kentucky Era: 1955-56 Style: walkaround Mainline run: 350 feet Minimum radius: 32″ (mainline), 28″ (branchline) Minimum turnout: no. 6 (mainline and yards), no. 4 (spurs) Maximum grade: 2 percent Originally appeared […]
Name: Mineral Point & Northern Layout designer: Gregg Condon Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 24 x 28 feet Prototype: freelance, connecting with the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Locale: Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Era: September 1956 Style: linear walkaround with Mainline run: 100 feet Minimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum grade: 2.5 percent Originally appeared […]
Name: Mississippi, Alabama & Gulf RR Layout designer: Cliff Powers Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 14 x 32 feet Locale: southern Mississippi and New Orleans Period: summer of 1955 Style: multi-deck walkaround Mainline run: 290 feet Minimum radius: 27″ (main line) Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 1.78 percent (helix only) Originally appeared in the Great […]
Name: Nitinat River RRLayout designer: The Branch Lines & Backwoods ClubScale: HO (1:87.1)Size: approx. 16 x 26 feet (5 x 8m)Prototype: Canadian National and freelancedLocale: Vancouver Island, B.C., CanadaEra: late 1940sStyle: sectional donutMainline run: 95 feetMinimum radius: 19″Minimum turnout: no. 5 (main), no. 4 (branch)Maximum grade: 3 percent Originally appeared in the Great Model Railroads […]
