Name: Cajon Pass
Layout owner: Pat Smith
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 33′-2″ x 40′-7″
Prototype: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Union Pacific; and Southern Pacific
Locale: Southern California
Era: Early 1950s to early 1960s
strong>Style: walkaround
Mainline run: 475 feet
Minimum Radius: 30″ Minimum turnout: no. 5
Maximum grade: 3 percent Benchwork: open grid
Height: 48″ to 591⁄2″
Roadbed: cork
Track: Atlas code 100 flextrack
Scenery: cardboard strips with fabric screening and plaster cloth
Backdrop: painted on wallboard and 1⁄8″ tempered hardboard
Control: Digitrax Super Chief Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in Great Model Railroads 2020. See a PDF version of this by clicking here.
