Name: Chessie System Pennsylvania Division
Layout owner: Doug Gainer
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 16′-0″ x 27′-6″ (excluding main staging yard)
Prototype: Chessie System
Locales: Pittsburgh, Lake Erie port, West Virginia coalfield
Era: 1972 to 1992
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 60 feet
Minimum radius: 40″
Minimum turnout: no. 6 (main line), no. 4 (yards and branch line)
Maximum grade: 3 percent
Benchwork: open grid
Height: 50″ to 54″
Roadbed: cork and Woodland Scenics Track-Bed foam strips
Track: Atlas and Peco code 100 flextrack
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board
Control: Digitrax DCC
This track plan originally appeared in the June 2016 Model Railroader. Click on the link to download the track plan.
