Name: Shady Grove & Sherrill Scale: On30 (1:48 proportion, scale 30″ track gauge) Size: 24 x 34 feet Theme: freelanced Locale: West Virginia Period: July 1947 Style: linear walkaround Mainline run: 200 feet Turnout minimum: no. 6 Maximum grade: 4 percent (main), 7 percent (branch line) Benchwork: open-grid and L girder Height: 52″ to 60″ Roadbed: […]
Name: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy-Lines East Scale: S (1:64) Size: 19 x 30 feet Prototype: semi-freelanced, inspired by CB&Q Locale: Illinois Era: late 1940s to early 1960s Style: walk-in Mainline run: 312 feet Minimum radius: 42″ Minimum turnout: no. 8 Maximum grade: 2 percent Benchwork: L-girder Height: 48″ to 56″ Roadbed: Homasote and cork Track: […]
Name: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific River Subdivision Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 30 x 60 feet Locale: Eastern Minnesota along the Mississippi River Period: Early fall 1950 Style: walkaround Mainline run: 195 feet (per westbound and eastbound tracks) Minimum radius: 36″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2 percent (in helix) Benchwork: L girder, […]
Name: River City Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 13 x 23 feet Prototype: Minneapolis & St. Louis Ry. Locale: Mason City, Iowa Period: first week of May 1954 Style: walkaround Mainline run: 90 feet Minimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: no. 5 Maximum grade: none Benchwork: open frame Height: 42″ Roadbed: Homasote on plywood Track: Peco code […]
Name: East Broad Top RR Scale: HOn3 (1:87, 3-foot-gauge track) Size: 15′-8″ x 19′-8″ Prototype: East Broad Top RR Locale: south-central Pennsylvania Period: 1926 Style: walk-in Mainline run: 110 feet Minimum radius: 18″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 4 percent Benchwork: L-girder Height: 48″ to 52″ Roadbed: Homasote on plywood Track: Micro Engineering code […]
Name: Nickel Plate Road, Kentucky Western Division and Canandaigua Southern RR, Southern Division Scale: O (1:48) Size: 18 x 89 feet Prototype: Nickel Plate Road and freelanced Locale: southern Ohio and western Pennsylvania Period: May 1958 Style: walk-in Mainline run: 1,000 feet Minimum radius: 64″ (main line), 56″ (staging loops) Maximum grade: 2.5 percent Benchwork: […]
Name: New England, Berkshire & Western RR Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 33 x 124 feet Prototype: freelanced, inspired by Delaware & Hudson and Rutland Locale: upstate New York and western Vermont Era: 1950 Style: linear walkaround Benchwork: L-girder Height: 51″ to 59″ Roadbed: 1⁄2″ Homasote with molded wood putty shoulders on 3⁄4″ plywood Track: handlaid […]
Name: The Mann’s Creek Ry. Scale: HO (1:87:1) and HOn3 (1:87:1, 3-foot-gauge) Size: 11′-3″ x 14′-7″ Prototype: The Mann’s Creek Ry., and Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Locale: New River Gorge, W.Va. Era: Monday afternoon, Aug. 1, 1928 Style: walk-in Mainline run: Mann’s Creek, 60 feet, C&O feet Minimum radius: 18″ (both) Minimum turnout: no. 4 […]
Name: Narragansett RR Scale: On3 (O scale, 3-foot gauge) Size: 24 x 24 feet Prototype: freelanced, inspired by Narragansett Pier RR Locale: Narragansett, R.I. Era: 1950 Style: walk-in Mainline run: 78 feet Minimum radius: 28″ Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: none Benchwork: L-girder and tabletop Height: 601⁄2″ Roadbed: Homasote on spline subroadbed Track: handlaid […]
Name: Great Lakes & Western Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 37 x 48 feet Theme: freelanced Class 1 with standard gauge logging and narrow gauge branch lines Locale: Midwest to Western United States Era: 1940s to present day (depends on operating session) Style: walk-in Mainline run: approx. 800 feet Minimum radius: 30″ (main line), 26″ (narrow […]
Name: Manassas Junction, Va. Scale: N (1:160) Size: 34″ x 52.5″ Prototype: Manassas Gap RR and Orange & Alexandria RR Locale: Manassas Junction, Va. Era: July 1861 Style: diorama Mainline run: 4′-4″ Minimum radius: 19″ Minimum turnout: no. 4 Maximum grade: none Benchwork: 1 x 2 frame with 1⁄4″ plywood top Height: 47′-6″ Roadbed: built […]
Name: All American Railroads Scale: S (1:64) Size: 20 x 24 feet Theme: freelanced Locale: generic North America Era: 1950s Style: walk-in Mainline run: 116 feet Minimum radius: 42″ Minimum turnout: no. 8 Maximum grade: 1.5 percent Benchwork: open grid Height: 42″ Roadbed: cork on plywood Track: Shinohara code 100 Scenery: drywall compound over extruded-foam insulation board […]
