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Track Plans Gallery

On this page you can view many of the layout designs I have created for other modelers in recent years. You can use the filter buttons and site search to locate plans by scale, prototype, state, size, and other characteristics.

I use a simple 2D CAD program called MacDraft to do my layout planning. It is not specialized for model railroading, but I've been using it a long time and it meets my needs.

Here are a couple of resources that you can freely download and distribute for non-commercial purposes:

Bob's Track Planning Questionnaire is the document I use to gather basic information for designing a plan. It might help you organize your own "Givens n' Druthers." It's a fillable Microsoft Word doc.

Bob's Curve and Grade Calculator is an Excel spreadsheet with multiple tabs. It can calculate the length of tracks at various curve radii and grades, along with train lengths and other functions for N, HO, S, and O scales. Have fun.

Jeff Stuparyk's CP in the Rockies

Few railroads can compete with the dramatic scenery of the Canadian Pacific in the Rocky Mountains west of Calgary. Jeff wanted to...

Dan Holzrichter's Union Pacific Worthington Sub

Dan identified an interesting prototype not often modeled. Emphasis was to be on the Bridgeport branch south of Sioux City, Iowa, with...

Bob Ullrich's B&O Old Main Line

Bob Ullrich took a shine to the B&O plan I developed for Larry Vandusen. The space was different enough that I proposed redesigning it...

Thomas Austin's Missouri Pacific Joppa Sub 1979

Thomas has a unique and rather challenging attic space for his railroad. We managed to make use of three of the dormers while retaining...

Wyatt Rankin's Norfolk Southern Asheville Division

Somehow the Norfolk Southern's ascent of the Blue Ridge has not achieved the fame of other feats of railroad engineering, but it should...

Steven Ward, Jr.'s Great Northwestern Pacific and Southwestern Pacific Railroad System

A special building will be built to house this monster, a grand tour of some of the iconic locations of North American railroading. It...

Alastair Brown's UP Scottish Division

Alastair Brown was inspired by the UP Caliente Subdivision plan published in Model Railroad Hobbyist, and wanted a version to fit his new...

George Randall's Conrail York

A central staircase is a layout planner's best friend -- eliminating the need for a gate or duckunder even for a double-track nolix...

Richard Van Laar's Clinchfield

Rich had most of the benchwork built before coming to me for a design. He had very specific ideas about where towns and – most important...

Devin Porteus' Eastern Hills and Southern (Lehigh Division)

We fit a pretty good representation of the famous Lehigh Valley mainline from Lehighton to Wilkes-Barre along with a couple of branch...

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On this page you can view many of the layout designs I have created for other modelers in recent years. You can use the filter buttons and site search to locate plans by scale, prototype, state, size, and other characteristics.

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