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Layout Details

Sand Patch Lines

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Layout Description

  • Under construction - no significant scenery yet. Steam to Diesel transition. Passenger trains (primarily diesel) add steam helpers at Cumberland station stop; freight trains add helpers at Hyndman. Sidings for 25 car freight trains. Two levels of folded dogbones. Ten track staging yard. Come see the behind the scenes look at a railroad before it is covered in scenery. Six foot roll out section with multiple main lines for access to furnace and hot water heater. Multiple hidden lines attached to wall brackets. Bowl-shaped grades in yard to aid in cars rolling after being cut-off during switching. Main line turnouts #8 for crossovers, #6/7 other mainline double ended tracks, #4,#2.5 for industry spur stub tracks.

Scale / Gauge

  • HO

Size of Layout

  • 30 feet by 13 feet

Prototype

  • Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Location Modeled

  • Allegheny Mountain climb from Cumberland, MD to San Patch, PA At Cumberland, the B&O splits into Chicago and St, Louis mains at Viaducts Jct. This railroad focuses on the Chicago trains - 5 daily passenger to Chicago, 2 to Cleveland and 1 to Toledo, as well as '97 freight trains sections to/from NY, Baltimore, Pot Yard, Pittsburgh, Toledo and Chicago. This model applies single track with sidings to what in prototype was double or triple track. The Cumberland narrows west of passenger station once hosted four railroads (B&O, C&P, WM & PRR) on five main tracks!

Era

  • 1950's

Style of Track Plan

  • Folded Dog Bone

Length of Main Line

  • 240'

Layout Height

  • lower 36 upper 50"

Benchwork

  • Modular Box & Leg

Roadbed Material

  • Homabed

Track Manufacturer

  • Micro Engineering

Turnouts

  • Atlas

Minimum Main Line Radius

  • 30"

Maximum Grade

  • 1.3 %

Scenery Techniques

  • hardshell

% Scenery Complete

  • 0 %

Backdrop

  • photomural on masonite

Control System

  • DCC - other

Car Forwarding System

  • None

Train Authority / Dispatching

  • Mother May I

Operating Group

  • Intown Model Railroaders

Direction Comment

  • Use paver path on right side of house to go to backyard and enter there for the railroad.

Wheelchair Accessible

ADA Comments

  • Not ADA - but - can be reached with persistence, if one is willing to navigate 16 inch paver path edged in grass - one short steep slope 6% and 30 inch doorways.
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