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28 track plans
for medium-sized spaces
• Layouts for 130 square-foot spaces and larger
• Designs provide minimum radius and turnout information
• All track plans include a scale grid for construction reference
• Plans for standard and narrow gauge layouts
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Medium layouts
Got some space to stretch out? Find some ideas here
By Steven Otte
It’s always winter in the town of Phil’s Church on Bill Henderson’s Coal Belt RR (plan 1, below). A medium-sized layout
space gives you room to experiment with techniques, such as a railroad that travels through all four seasons.
The modeler lucky enough to have
more than a bedroom for his railroad
has some choices to make. Do you fill
the space with enough main line to
enable long runs and trains of prototypical length? Build a big yard or add
a bunch of industries for lots of
switching action? Stretch out the
track between cities to make more
room for scenery?
There are as many approaches to
layout design as there are spaces in
which to build. For example, compare
the Wisconsin Central, plan 3, with
plan 15, the Dakota Northern. Both
are N scale, have a similar footprint,
and occupy rooms close to the same
size. But while the Dakota Northern’s
plan emphasizes continuous running
and yard switching, the Wisconsin
Central’s single-track main allows for
more scenery and realistic localfreight operations.
As you take a look through these
plans, you may find one that’s right for
you. (As you’ll see by the Editor’s choice
boxes, most of the Model Railroader
staff has picked favorites.) But even if
you don’t, you may still find something
that will inspire your next layout.
Hinged section folds upward for entry
Coal Belt
57"
54"
56"
1
Published: Great Model
Railroads 2002
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Plan size: 8 x 20 feet
Minimum radius: 24"
Minimum turnout: no. 6
Maximum grade: 2.5
percent
53"
Walnut Gap
2
28 track plans for medium-sized spaces
Port Carbon
53" Three staging tracks
Pennsylvania RR
Autumn Park
interchange
Phil’s Church
Water column Stone arch bridge
Girder bridge
55"
54"
57"
Scale of plan: 7⁄32" = 1'-0", 12" grid
As your train runs counter-clockwise
around this layout, you will be moving
not only through scenery depicting
Northeastern coal-mining territory,
57"
Treskova
but also through the four seasons of a
year. Spring is always in full bloom in
Port Carbon, while it’s always winter
in Phil’s Church. Many modelers pick
55"
56"
55"
Illustration by Rick Johnson
summer or fall for their layouts
because it’s easy to landscape, but a
well-done winter scene can have a
beauty of its own.
Bay Point & Diablo
Diablo
Oxidizer
Amulite Mill unloading
Published: May 2005
Scale: On21 ⁄2 (1:48)
Minimum radius: 24"
(yard), no. 5 (main)
Maximum grade: 5 percent
2
Closet
Water General
tank
store
Entrance
Diablo
Water
tank
58"
563⁄4"
Freight depot
Narrow gauge railroading appeals to
a lot of modelers for different reasons.
Some like the look of the intricate
steam engines and rugged terrain that
characterize many such lines. Others
like that the smaller rolling stock and
tighter curves allow them to pack
more railroad into a smaller space.
Modelers who want the size and detail
of O scale, but don’t have an empiresized space for their layouts, often find
a compromise in narrow gauge. This
On21 ⁄2 plan models a short line linking
mine country to a port city.
52"
Freight dock
Clyde
Minnetti Machinery
Diablo
Creek
Hastings
Slough
Bay Point Amulite plant
Oxidizer loading
Bay Point
Sierra
Stoneworks
531⁄2" yard
Water tank
Enginehouse
491⁄2"
Rock
loader
RIP track
Oil tank
48"
503⁄4"
61"
Cowell Junction
Backdrop
Window
Butterfield Road
To lower level staging loop
Aptakisic
0"
1"
Feed mill
7"
6"
Cedar Lake
8"
8"
Evanston
Fuel & Material
Wolohan
Lumber
Hicksgas
Super
Fuels Signal
house
State Route 83
2"
6"
Lake
Villa
Water tower
Mundelein
6"
Metra
station
7"
Leithton
Parade
Packaging
Wisconsin Central
Grayslake
Oil tanks
Medline Industries
Seigle’s Home
& Building Center
Boarded-up
interlocking
tower
Olympic
Packaging
3"
5"
Cedar Avenue
North Shore Gas
U.S. Route 45
5"
4"
Team track
Alan Josephson Recyclers
Illustration by Robert Wegner
Metra/CP Rail
sneakoff
Published: October 2005
Scale: N (1:160)
Minimum radius: 14"
3
Just because your trains are small
doesn’t mean your scenery has to be.
This plan models the broad vistas of
Midwestern farm country in 1995. The
modest space requirements of N scale
means room for big industries,
forested hills, farm fields, a working
interchange, and even a stretch of
suburban commuter line. Doubleended staging looped under the
central peninsula allows realistic
point-to-point operations.
Illustration by Kellie Jaeger
www.ModelRailroader.com
3
Station
Onion Valley
Mining & Lumber
4
Published: July 2005
Scale: HO and HOn21 ⁄2 (1:87.1)
Minimum radius: 18"
Mining Co.
Stockyard
Brewery
61"
61"
61"
Lone Pine
Traverser
Turntable
Water tower
Freight dock
Manzanar
Independence
Tub Springs
Inyo Mine
Another Southwestern mining
railroad like plan 2, the Onion Valley
is two layouts in one: the standard
gauge main line in the valley, and the
narrow gauge mountain line that
delivers ore to the stamp mill. The line
is designed to fit around two walls of a
garage. If the layout is mounted high
enough, a modeler could suspend the
end of the peninsula from the ceiling,
leaving room for a sports car to park
underneath. Staging on a traversing
table represents connections to the
outside world.
Mining
supply
building
Standard gauge
Narrow gauge
Mining supply
Freight house building
Seven Pines
stamp mill
54"
70"
57"
Oudama
Mine
Howe
truss
bridge
Deck
bridge
Water
tower
Grays Meadow
Trestle
Atlas
bridge
Great Balsa
gold mine
Lumber
storage
54"
Onion Valley
Onion Valley
Sawmill
Freight and
passenger
station
Water tower
Turntable
Future extension
Prokhorovsk
5
Published: November 2005
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Plan size: 11'-4" x 13'-8"
Minimum radius: 30"
Minimum turnout: Peco large
radius
Kearsarge
Pass
Tower
Main line to
St. Petersburg
(used as staging)
Diesel shed
Window (partially
covered by
backdrop)
Prokhorovsk
Open
staging
Building
flats
Rather than focusing on industry
switching or mainline operations, this
layout models a passenger terminal at
the end of a branch line or division.
Terminal operations involve receiving
incoming trains from various offlayout locations, breaking them down
in the coach yard, and making up new
trains for other destinations. Though
this layout is based on Russia’s Soviet
October Ry., it could easily represent
an American or European prototype.
Local arrivals
and departures
Mainline arrivals
and departures
Baggage/mail
platform
Prokhorovsk station
building flat
Folding closet doors
Illustration by Jay Smith
4
Double-slip
switch
Staging tracks hidden behind hill
Western
Maryland’s
Thomas Sub.
6
Depot
Town building flats
11" radius
Elkins
Engine
terminal
Car shop leads
Published: July 2008
Scale: N (1:160)
Minimum radius: 11"
Minimum turnout: Peco
medium radius
Parsons
Depot
Cutoff track
hidden behind
hills
Shaver’s
Fork,
Cheat
River
Elk River
Junction
To Webster
Springs
To Durbin
Sometimes, the prototype scene that
inspires a layout isn’t a yard, an
industry, or a city, but simply an
interesting track formation. This
plan’s inspiration is the Western
Maryland’s river-spanning triple
junction in the Shaver’s Fork Branch
valley of West Virginia. Backdrops
isolate scenes, lengthening the run.
Cheat
Junction
Gould Tannery
Sector plate
serves all
staging tracks
Cumberland
and Webster
Springs staging Greenbrier
60 degree
crossing
Junction
Scale of plan: 1⁄4 " = 1'-0", 12" grid
Hevonkuusi Ry.
7
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Plan size: 9'-2" x 13'-9"
Minimum radius: 23"
Industries
Although this plan was designed to
represent a prototype in Finland, it’s
versatile enough to stand in for a line
along America’s Eastern seaboard. The
streetcar line circling the urban blocks
adds interest. Hiding the back of the
dogbone under elevated terrain makes
the railroad look more realistic.
Double-slip switch
Factory
Footbridge
Loading dock
Boat dock
Hevonkuuski
Roundhouse
Woodshed
Station
0"
5"
Illustration by Theo Cobb
Water tower
Tramway
Staging track under scenery
Backdrop
5
Central New
Mexico Ry.
8
55"
Mining
supply
company
Published: July-December
2006
Scale: On3 and On21 ⁄2 (1:48)
Plan size: 11'-3" x 17'-2"
Minimum radius: 28"
Mine
583⁄4"
Coaling dock
Water tank
Handcar shed
What is it about the Southwestern
United States that fascinates so many
model railroaders? Maybe it’s the
stark, rocky terrain, the interesting
narrow gauge rolling stock, or the
importance of the role the railroads
played in the development of the West.
This plan hits all the high points.
Though not much On3 equipment is
commercially available, manufacturers sell kits for converting On21 ⁄2
rolling stock to On3.
Team track
Rio Seco
Boardwalk
55"
63"
Falls Creek
Steel Falls
viaduct Creek
55"
Ozark, Ouachita
& Red River
Kendel
County
Creosote
Co.
Oil
Gravel pit
Diana well
Junction
Oil
distributor
Oil well
Lumberyard
Feed mill
Diana
Cherokee
Paper Mill
Lafayette
Tilghman
Future
industries
Smith Lumber
Co. Sawmill
To St. Louis
Southwestern
interchange
To OO&RR
main line
Closet
Staging
Published: April 2004
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Minimum radius: 24"
9
Future
industries
Tilghman
Textiles
6
Transfer
track
On3
On21⁄2
Tipple
Fisher’s
Meats
661⁄4"
The designer of this layout drew
inspiration from a track plan published in Model Railroader in February
1980. Starting with executive editor
Andy Sperandeo’s San Jacinto District
plan, the designer broadened the
curves, extended the staging into the
closet and added a lift-out bridge for
continuous operation. He also moved
the locale from California to Arkansas. However, this plan could be set
anyplace from Alaska to Virginia.
Dead track
Denver, Rio
Grande & Southern
10
Closet
Snowshed
Ridgway depot
Railroads 2001
Scale: Sn3 (1:64)
Minimum radius: 30"
Ash pit
Office
Bunkhouse
Tool shed
Ridgeway
S scale, popularized in the United
States by American Flyer toy trains, is
gaining favor with modelers looking
for more detail than HO scale without
the space requirements of O. Modeling
narrow gauge further reduces the
space needed for curves and right-ofway, making a room-sized layout like
this one practical.
Miracle Farm
Machinery Co.
Roundhouse
Jacks Cabin water tank
Sheep
pens
Burnside
Stamp Mill
HOn3 track
Rio Verde
& Western
Mt. Michael
(removable for
access to helix)
4 percent up
Track
maintenance
shed
11
0"
0"
9"
Nn3 layouts like this one use Z gauge
track and mechanisms to represent
three-foot-gauge railroading. Z gauge
track actually works out to about 40"
between the rails in N, but the convenience of being able to use ready-made
motor mechanisms outweighs the
four-scale-inch discrepancy. Unlike
many mixed-gauge layouts, on this
one the narrow gauge is the main line
and the electrified standard gauge line
plays the secondary role.
Railroads 2001
Scale: N and Nn3 (1:160)
Plan size: 10'-8" x 15'-4"
Minimum radius: 7"
Engine shed
5"
Rio Verde
8"
Station
Freight depot
Big O Cereal Co.
Tri-state Distributors
0"
0"
Cattle pens
Engine shed
2 percent up
4"
Rio Verde River
Electrified standard gauge
Narrow gauge
Staceyville
Yardmaster’s office
Freight house
Coal and lumber
Mesa Grande
Depot
Warehouse 5 percent up
Engine servicing
Freight depot
Station
Furniture
factory
6"
6"
8"
9"
Deadman’s Gulch trestle
To staging loop under Mesa Grande
7
Open mountain top for access
Rudy
Arkansas
& Missouri
12
4
Published: February 1999
Scale: N (1:160)
Minimum radius: 10"
3
1
6
0
Arkansas Fort Smith
Steel trestle no. 2
River
(Visible staging)
Steel
Union Pacific
trestle
interchange
Winslow
no. 1
Springdale
Depot
Backdrop
This railroad climbs a steep grade as
it ascends through the Ozarks. High
ridges and trees act as view blocks for
most of the steepest grades. There are
enough operating possibilities to keep
two or more engineers busy at once.
Cyclone
Fence Co.
Miller Beer distributor
Los Angeles
& San Fernando
Valley RR
Strongheart
Dog Food
Railroads 2006
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Plan size: 9'-6" x 23'-0"
Minimum radius: 48"
Coast
Division
Burbank Branch
Highway overpass
Burbank Junction
Burbank Freight Depot
Sunland
Boulevard
Burbank Tower
General Water Heater Co.
5
4
48" radius
Burbank Boulevard
1
3
Future
extension
Tradewater
Oil Co.
Citrus packinghouse
Scrapyard
Passenger
depot Enginehouse
2
Van Nuys
North Hollywood
5
0
Los Angeles Division
13
Highway
Sun Valley
San Joaquin Division overpass
This layout began as a 5-foot-long,
1-foot-wide shelf with a single stretch
of track. That shelf was followed by
another, this time with turnouts, then
The Schuylkill
Iron Works
14
Published: May 2008
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Minimum radius: 15"
If your industry is big enough, like an
iron works, you might need a whole
layout to depict it accurately. There’s a
8
another and another. Building a layout
in sections has advantages: sections
can be built on the workbench,
maintenance and cleaning are
Forge
Machine Coal
Machine shop
Coal
preparation
shop
bin
annex
building
simplified, and pieces can be photographed outside in natural daylight. It
also simplifies transporting the layout,
should moving become necessary.
Open
hearth
Pump Power
Forge
Maintenance Storage Oil
building tanks house substation power
building
house
Pennsylvania RR main line on this
track plan, but the focus of this 1920sera layout is on the movement of cars
Headquarters
offices
Stripper
building
Elevator
Water
Cast house
tower Stoves
Furnace
boiler
house
Blower
house
Furnace
stock house
laden with ore, coal, coke, hot metal,
slag, ingots, and finished product
from building to building.
30"
radius
MODEL RAILROADER
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Milwaukee transfer
Cement track
Pekin
Dakota
Northern RR
15
Published: April 2000
Scale: N (1:160)
Plan size: 12'-0" x 13'-6"
Minimum radius: 15"
Maximum grade: 1.5
percent
Depot
Northern
Seed & Feed
Warwick
Cargill elevator
Mill
track
Sheyenne
Valley City
Red River Feeds
Farmer’s Depot
Cooperative
Freight house
Soo Line
transfer
Gamble
Robinson
RIP track
Since I’m originally from the part of
the country this layout is based on, it
should be no surprise I selected the
Dakota Northern as my Editor’s
Choice pick. This layout features grain
elevators, fertilizer plants, and feed
mills, all common industries in
eastern North Dakota. There are also
passenger depots, interchange tracks,
and a large classification yard to add
operating interest. Though this model
railroad is based on the Burlington
Northern, it could be adapted to
represent numerous granger railroads.
– Cody Grivno, associate editor
Devils
Lake
Farmers
Union grain
Fairview
Depot
Fertilizer
Texaco Oil
Pillsbury elevator
Soo Line
transfer
Elevator
track 2
Elevator
track 1
Sand &
Gravel
Caboose
track
Freight house
Lakota
Soo Line staging
Depot
Grand Forks staging
Minot staging
Marvin Windows Power plant
CB&Q
Doorway
A
A
0"
Mississippi River
To return loop
East Hannibal
Scale of plan:
Open
access
area
5⁄16" = 1'-0",
12" grid
4"
Depot
Bluffs
Wabash RR,
Decatur Division,
10th District
Published: December 2000
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Minimum radius: 24"
16
Hulls
Illinois Grain Co.
CB&Q Keokuk District
CB&Q depot
Valley City
Baylis
Depot
Purina
Wayne Feeds
To Meredosia
(11th District)
4"
Illinois River
Signal
2"
This layout captures the last hurrah
of the Wabash, just before its identity
was swallowed in a merger with the
Norfolk & Western in October 1967.
It’s designed for out-and-back operation, with trains originating in the
yard at Bluffs, Ill., making their way
across the Mississippi River into
Missouri, turning on the hidden loop
there, and returning.
9
MODEL RAILROADER
Jim Robbins Seat Belt Co.
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Ford Vinyl
& Paint
Grand Trunk
Western, Romeo
Subdivision
17
Ex-NYC interchange
Great Lakes
Tractor
Scale: O (1:48)
Minimum radius: 36" (main),
24" (staging)
Lumber
Stoney Creek
GTW shops
Armada
Romeo
Purina Service
Romeo depot
Armada Co-op
Converted
NYC depot
Yates Siding
Growing up in the 1980s, I watched
Grand Trunk Geeps haul locals
behind my grandparents’ farm in
Armada, Mich. Modeling a line that
features four-axle diesels, short trains,
and slow train speeds is a great way to
get the most operation out of a limited
amount of space.
Richard Cooke’s clever track plan
fits several industries, an interchange
track, a branch line, and a staging
yard with a turntable into a modest
space. – Dana Kawala, senior editor
South Central
Minnesota RR
18
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Plan size: 7'-6" x 22'-6"
Minimum radius: 26"
Pontiac
Staging yard
in closet
Who says you have to settle on only
one prototype? Many cities, even small
ones like Owatonna, Minn., were
served by two or more railroads. This
HO scale layout depicts the Chicago &
North Western and Milwaukee Road
lines through that farm town. Plan-
Milwaukee Road
Gandy Co. Sampson
Hwy.
Chicago & North Western
Dairy
218 Substation
Houses
Drop-hinge Union Baggage
Depot house
bridge
ning the sidings on the two railroads
so that the industries and yards they
serve overlap as little as possible keeps
engineers from getting in each other’s
way during an operating session. And
the continuous ovals allow one road to
run unattended during solo operation.
Feed
Owatonna
Metal shop Canning Co. store
County
Grain
Feed Quonset
building
Rd. 45 Straight River
elevator
mill
Gravel pits
House
Freight
house
Gas station
Lumberyard
Farm
Malt-OMeal
plant
Medford depot
Canning
company
Cemetery
10
MODEL RAILROADER
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Wingate Wholesalers
Holy Spirits
Distilleries
Boston & Maine:
Western Route,
North Dover, N.H.
19
Scodras Grocers
Phillips Furniture
Meek Tunnel
Freight Depot
Marshall
Outbound
Inbound
station
(from Boston)
(to Boston) Creamery
Railroads 2004
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Minimum radius: 31"
North Dover
New England
River
Haney Fuels
Boston & Maine
Maine Central
F. B. Hamer
& Sons
As long as you don’t mind the duckunder to enter the room, this model
railroad provides some great operation. Mike Hamer designed it for a
room in his home, and the layout
features two distinct scenes separated
by view blocks. Mike didn’t model a
prototype town, but instead combined
parts of some of his favorite New
England railroad places to make
North Dover. To gain staging space,
Mike wrapped tracks around the
perimeter of the layout, hiding them
from view with hills and structures.
The abundance of staging provides
plenty of work for his operators.
– David Popp, managing editor
Conley
Lumber Mitchell
and Coal Creek
Salmon
River
Tower
B&M
staging
MEC
staging
Door and Tower
duckunder
Hidden staging
N.A.S.A. Mining Co.
J.F. Machine Shop
Montreal
& Northern Ry.
Published: January 2007
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Plan size: 10'-4" x 12'-6"
Minimum radius: 18"
Pont Saint
Kevin
39" level
36" level
Bob’s
Hot Dogs
Bed &
Breakfast Control panel
G.L. Bicycles
20
The two loops of this urban plan
connect only with track concealed
behind buildings. This allows a single
operator to let one train run unattended on the upper level while
switching the local on the lower. Tall,
densely packed structures combine
with partial buildings, background
flats, and a photo backdrop to give one
end of the compact layout the look of a
truly massive city.
Dan Corp.
J-P Printing Co.
Furlow Center
Milwaukee
Beer distributor
Warehouse
Photo backdrop
Mirror
11
West stub
View block
Ash Grove Subdivision
Depot
Structures used as view block
Springfield, Mo.,
on the Frisco
21
Passenger
yard
Scale: N (1:160)
Plan size: 12'-6" x 12'-6"
Minimum radius: 10"
Springfield
Subdivision
Nichols
Junction
Commissary
Industry
Springfield
Yard
Sleeper set
out track
West
staging
X marks the spot at Nichols Junction,
where four subdivisions of the St.
Louis-San Francisco Ry. intersected.
This track plan models Frisco operations in and around Springfield, Mo.,
in the 1950s, when sleek passenger
trains shared the rails with through
and local freights. Business blocks and
wooded hills hide the fact that the
four legs of the X form a figure eight,
as well as disguising the staging yards
at both ends of the shelf.
Memphis
main line
Station
Depot
Freight
house
Oil tanks
SPRINGFIELD
Republic
Industry
Dock
East belt line
Printing
plant
Structures used
Willow Springs East
Subdivision
staging as view block
Lebanon
Subdivision
Carm Fabric Mill
American Shoe
Joshua Fishman’s
Mattress Co.
Valley
Tool
Derby
Foundry
Waterbury Branch
of the New Haven
Brewery
Short
wall
Computer
table
Burke
Industries
Elevated
station
Brass City
Diner (below)
Hotel
Waste
Treatment
Lift bridge
Yankee
Manufacturing
Collett’s Cannery
Sprague
Gutter Co.
22
WestfieldKlein Co.
E. L. Woods
Manufacturing
12
Published: January 1999
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Minimum radius: 23"
This railroad’s designer sought to
make his small layout look like a big
city. Layers of tall structures, kitbashed to fit between adjacent tracks,
create the look of a much larger urban
area. He also doesn’t let track overwhelm the layout, keeping the main to
a single track and hiding some tracks
under hills and behind buildings.
Lift bridge
Olympic & Puget
Sound Ry.
23
Published: March 2007
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Plan size: 15'-0" x 16'-4"
Minimum radius: 24"
Maximum grade: 2.5
percent
There’s a lot of main line in this track
plan, but it doesn’t look crowded.
Linking distant parts of the layout
with track hidden in tunnels maximizes the mainline run while leaving
lots of room for realistic scenery, from
urban blocks to rugged mountains.
Keeping hard-to-reach track, including most hidden tracks and those on
the far side of a shelf from the operator, to single track without turnouts
reduces access problems and reduces
the chance of derailments.
Puyallup River
50"
46"
Lighthouse
Canning Co.
46"
American
Boathouse
Kent Coal Co.
Enginehouse
Depot
Duckunder
Depot
TACOMA
Wyman
Lumber Co.
Yakima Fruit
Growers
Puget
Mills
Lake
Quinault
Sawmill
Access
hatch
46"
46"
Icing platform
50"
Foundry
Coal tower
46"
50"
46"
Duckunder
Illustration by Rick Johnson and Roen Kelly
Georgetown
MODEL RAILROADER
EDITOR’S CHOICE
48"
New Haven’s
Cape Cod Branch
24
Union Freight RR
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Plan size: 12'-6" x 20'-0"
Minimum radius: 26"
Maximum grade: 1.5
percent
Maybe it’s because I grew up around
water, but I’ve always been fascinated
by seaside railroads. The interchange
of cargo between ships and trains, the
visual interest of bridges and trestles,
and the many different ways to model
water also add to the appeal.
This plan by John Pryke has all of
those elements, from Boston Harbor
to the lift bridge over the Cape Cod
Canal. That bridge’s 544-foot span was
a record-setter at the time it was built,
and is almost mandatory for a layout
like this.
When that bridge was built in 1933,
its weight limits prevented its use by
heavier engines developed later.
Similar restrictions can be used to
add to the operating challenges of any
railroad. – Steven Otte, associate editor
Workbench
Boston
Boston yard
Passenger
platform
Provincetown
105-foot
turntable
90-foot
turntable
Hyannis
49"
Cranberry
bogs
49"
48"
Buzzards
Bay
Cape Cod
Canal
bridge
Orleans
Yarmouth wye
48"
Illustration by Roen Kelly
13
Black Rock &
Marmot
25
50"
A
Scale: N (1:160)
Minimum radius: 18"
Maximum grade: 2.5 percent
49"
A
Marmot
Able Pottery Oil City
Distributors Manufacturing
Station
Center
Marmot
Stern
Peak
47"
Center Creek
Meek’s Supply
Chad’s Chairs
Pete’s Produce
Black Rock
Industries
Summit
This freelanced railroad is set in the
mountains of northern California.
Judicious use of tunnels keeps the
track from crowding out the terrain,
which stretches from the forest to the
high desert. The tunnels also disguise
the mainline loop, making the track
seem like a more realistic point-topoint operation. Stopping a train
briefly in a tunnel can also increase
the virtual distance between stations.
50"
Black Rock
Westen
End of
scenery
Black Rock
Lumber
Summit Ridge
48"
Meg’s Mine
Closet door
removed
48"
47"
Staging and Southern
Pacific interchange
Kabinett
Santa Fe,
Needles District
26
Published: September 2002
Scale: N (1:160)
Plan size: 9'-8" x 20'-0"
Minimum radius: 151 ⁄2"
Shell Oil
refinery
This railroad is designed for the
modeler who has a lot of motive power
and wants to show it off. Big yards at
both ends, backed up by staging in an
Komo’s
Scrapyard
NEEDLES
Lee Way
Desert U.S. Trucking
Cement Rt. 66 Transfer
Anne’s
Diner
Engine
tracks
50"
adjacent room, means the ability to
run plenty of trains. Gentle curves on
the double-tracked main line show off
long trains to their best advantage.
Station
Fuel and sand Needles
roundhouse
Garage
door
Highway bridge
3 UP staging
tracks (elevated)
14 AT&SF
staging tracks
UP to Salt
Lake City
Daggett
Dry wash
Santa Fe
Service Diesel
diesel house shed
fuel pads
40-foot trailer
storage
UP 4-track staging
under peninsula
Highway
bridge
BARSTOW Station
Duckunder
14
MODEL RAILROADER
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Maryland & Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Division
27
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Plan size: 8'-8" x 22'-0"
Minimum radius: 18"
Peach Bottom Branch to Slate Hill
This track plan depicts a layout built
by modeler Stan White. I had the
pleasure of operating it a couple of
times, so I can attest that it was
faithful to its prototype, a well-known
Eastern short line, and a lot of fun.
The main line ran from the stub-end
terminal at York, Pa., to a reverse loop
with storage sidings hidden beneath
York, representing the “Ma & Pa’s”
big-city terminal in Baltimore.
Besides the off-stage loop, interchange
tracks at York provided additional
beyond-the-layout connections to other
railroads. Despite its short mainline
run, the layout supported realistic
operation. Stan’s layout design satisfies
many of my own criteria for a successful model railroad, including walk-in
access, representation of an interesting
prototype, and a realistic operating
scheme. The layout’s sharp curves, 18"
radius in HO scale, were no hindrance
to the Ma & Pa’s small locomotives
and short passenger cars. – Andy
Sperandeo, executive editor
Red Lion, Pa.
Depot
Removable
staging for
Pennsylvania RR
and Western
Maryland
interchange
Depot
Delta,
Pa.
38"
Relay, Pa.
York, Pa.
Coal
To Baltimore Cardiff,
Water
Slate
Md. Ash pit
(staging)
Hill, Pa.
Depot
45.5"
Depot
Illustration by Robert Wegner and Rick Johnson
Farmhouse and barn
Backdrop
Oak Grove, Ill.
on the Missouri,
Kansas & Quincy
28
Published: June 2005
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Plan size: 6'-9" x 16'-0", plus
off-layout staging
Minimum radius: 30"
Santa Fe depot
Hatch B
Abandoned
quarry
Hatch C
Hatch D
Hatch A
Field
MKQ/Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe
double track to
Link, Colo.
CSX
Field
Farm shed
CSX (B&O)
CSX (ex-B&O) depot
Tractor
Babe’s Diner dealer
Grain elevators
CSX (B&O)
The interchange between two Class 1
railroads at a Midwestern town is the
focus of this plan. Grain elevators and
other agricultural-themed businesses
help place this railroad in Illinois.
This plan could be part of a larger
layout, although it provides plenty of
operating interest on its own.
To Sedalia,
Colo.,
MKQ/ATSF
15

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