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The Canada, Spokane & Pacific layout in HO scale

By Mitch Horner | May 9, 2024

| Last updated on February 18, 2026

This HO scale layout is modeled after the Pacific Northwest in June of 1981

Facts and features

Name: Canada, Spokane & Pacific
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 32 x 43 feet
Prototypes: Burlington Northern, Canadian Pacific
Locale: Pacific Northwest
Era: June 1981
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 260 feet
Minimum radius: 36″
Minimum turnout: No. 6
Maximum grade: 2%
Benchwork: L-girder
Height: 39″ to 46″
Roadbed: Homasote
Track: Atlas code 83 flextrack
Scenery: plaster gauze over cardboard web covered with Structolite
Backdrop: LARC Products photo backdrops on tempered hardboard
Control: NCE DCC with wireless throttles