Name: Metropolitan Union Passenger Terminal Layout designer: Stan Sweatt Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 10 x 20 feet Theme: Passenger terminal Locale: freelanced Era: late steam Style: walk-in Mainline run: 120 feet Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 8 (main), no. 6 (yard), no. 5 (spurs) Maximum grade: 3 percent Originally appeared in the January 2011 […]
Read the original article about Model Railroader‘s HO scale club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy by clicking here. It was originally published in December 1989. […]
USRA locomotives were born under unique circumstances. A confluence of circumstances led to the nationalization of many of America’s railroads under President Woodrow Wilson in 1917. The outbreak of World War I, which necessitated a ramp-up of American industrial production capacity, and the financial circumstances of the early 1910s led to a liquidity crisis for […]
Name: Cedar Valley Short Lines Layout designer: John Saxon Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 10 x 22 feet (additional two-track loop suspended from ceiling of adjoining garage) Theme: freelanced, based on Tony Koester’s Allegheny Midland Locale: West Virginia Era: 1960 Style: multilevel walkaround Mainline run: 168 feet Minimum radius: 27″ (visible), 24″ (hidden) Minimum turnout: no. […]
Name: C&O Mountain Subdivision Layout designer: Bernard Kempinski Scale: N (1:160) Size: 30 x 30 feet Prototype: Chesapeake & Ohio with interchange connections to the Norfolk & Western and Southern Ry. Locale: Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Era: 1950 Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 175 feet Minimum radius: 24″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 […]
Name: Pennsylvania RR Panhandle Division Layout designer: Curt LaRue Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 40 x 41 feet Prototype: Pennsylvania RR Locale: western Pennsylvania, West Virginia panhandle, and eastern Ohio Eras: 1950-1952 (primary), 1955-1956 (secondary) Style: around the walls Mainline run: 120 feet Minimum radius: 36″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: none Click on the […]
Read how Brooks Stover made a three-hour operating session for a 6- to 8-member crew with what seemed like so little action. Adding operations to a model railroad […]
Read how John Armstrong developed the Southern Pacific Lines Shasta Division for Otis McGree, Jr. Main line through the mountains […]
Name: Buffalo Creek & Gauley Layout designer: Brooks Stover Scale: S (1:64) Size: 24 x 44 feet Prototype: Buffalo Creek & Gauley Locale: West Virginia Era: 1958 Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 100 feet Minimum radius: 32″ (visible track), 24″ (hidden track) Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 11-1/2 percent (BC&G), 2 percent (ERC&L) Click […]
Name: Delaware & Hudson Sonnyvale Branch Layout designer: Kip Grant Scale: HO (1:87.1)Size: 12′-9″ x 18′-11″ Prototype: Delaware & Hudson Saratoga SubdivisionLocale: Eastern New YorkEra: early fall, 1962Style: walkaroundMainline run: 45 feetMinimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Click on the link to download the PDF of this track plan. […]
Name: Reading Co., Shamokin Division Layout designer: Jim Hertzog Scale: HO Size: 30′-6″ x 40′-0″ Prototype: Reading Co. Locale: eastern Pennsylvania Era: 1952-1957 Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 285 feet Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum grade: 2.6 percent Click on the link to download the PDF of this track plan. […]
Track plan at a glance Name: Allegheny Midland (Coal Fork Extension) Scale: HO (1:87) Size: 13 x 19 feet Prototype: free-lanced, based on coal branches of the Chesapeake & Ohio and Virgnian Period: 1957 Style: walkaround Minimum radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 6, handlaid to fit Originally appeared in the June 1998 issue of Model […]
