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Name: Keystone Specialty Metals coke plant Layout designer: Randy Costanza Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 3 x 24 feet (three 8-foot modules) Prototype: freelance Locale: western Pennsylvania Era: 1990 Layout style: modular Layout height: 48″ Benchwork: lauan waffle construction Roadbed: 3/16″ lauan Track: Atlas code 100 Turnout minimum: no. 6 Minimum radius: 54″ (branch line), 20″ […]
Name: Liberty Street Layout designer: Tom Teeple Scale: HO Size: 6′-0″ x 12′-9″ Prototype: Missouri Pacific Locale: Kansas City, Mo. Era: 1895 Style: Shelf Minimum radius: 15″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum grade: none Originally appeared Great Model Railroads 2012. Click on the link to download the PDF of this track plan. […]
Name: London, Midland & Scottish Ry. (LMS) Layout designer: Greg Simpson Scale: OO (1:76 proportion on 1:87.1 HO gauge track) Size: 15 x 20 feet Prototype: (LMS) Locale: England, West Midlands Era: 1900s to 1960s Style: walk-in Mainline run: 100 feet Minimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main), no. 4 (sidings) Maximum grade: 1 […]
Name: Miami Rail Service Co. Layout designer: Bob Springs Scale: 1:29 Size: 20 x 36 feet, plus outdoor staging Prototype: CSX industrial spurs Locale: Miami Era: present day Style: around-the-walls shelf Mainline run: 200 feet (loop) Minimum radius: 66 inches Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main), no. 4 (one spur) Grade: none Originally appeared Great Model […]
Name: Rocky Mountain LineLayout designer: Don MeekerScale: HO (1:87.1)Size: 53′-9″ x 69′-6″Prototype: FreelancedLocale: ColoradoEra: 1950sStyle: Multi-level walkaroundMainline run: 679 feet (1,179 feet including branch lines)Minimum radius: 36″Minimum turnout: no. 8 (main), no. 6 (branches and yards)Maximum grade: 2 percent Originally appeared Great Model Railroads 2012. Click on the link to download the PDF of this […]
Name: The Patch Layout designer: Keith Jordan Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 8′-1″ x 8′-10″ Prototype: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Locale: Los Angeles Era: early to mid-1950s Style: shelf Minimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: Atlas code 83 Custom-Line no. 4 Maximum grade: none Originally appeared Great Model Railroads 2012. Click on the link to download […]
Name: West Side Lumber Co. Layout designer: Ken Larson Scale: O (1:48), three-foot gauge Size: 35 x 38 feet Prototype: West Side Lumber Co., Tuolumne, Calif. Locale: Sierra Nevada foothills, Stanislaus National Forest Era: July 4, 1950 Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 180 feet Minimum radius: 28″ (main), 26″ (wyes) Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum […]
Read how Ray and Renee Grosser modeled their HO scale transition-era layout by clicking here. Since then, they’ve now changed their layout to O scale. […]
Bob Springs used Lance Mindheim article from Great Model Railroads 2008 to build his large scale Miami CSX layout. Read Lance’s article about his HO scale shelf layout by clicking here. […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Utah Belt Layout designer: Eric Brooman Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 22′-8″ x 39′-6″ Prototype: freelanced Period: the present Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 173 feet Minimum radius: 39″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 1.5 percent Originally appeared in the 2006 issue of Great Model Railroads. Click here to […]
Track plan at a glance Layout designer: Eric Brooman Name: Utah Belt Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size:17 ‘-7″ x 23 Prototype: free-lanced Period: the present Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 173 feet Minimum radius: 39″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 1.5 percent Originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 1997 and in the February 1998 issue […]
Name: Milwaukee Road’s Beer Line Layout designer: Rich Steenwyk Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 20 x 48 feet Prototype: Milwaukee Road Chestnut Street Branch Locale: Milwaukee Era: 1975 Style: around-the-walls Branch line run: 85 feet Minimum radius: 26″ (main), 15″ (spurs) Minimum turnout: no. 5 Maximum grade: 2 percent Originally appeared in the November 2011 issue […]
