Bob's Track Plans

Podcaster Scotty Mason ran a contest to design a model railroad for the modest space in his new house. I won! This is based on the PC...

This is the larger, HO scale version of this prototype originally designed for a garage-sized space and featured in Model Railroader in...

Another popular plan, published in Model Railroader, based on the BNSF and its junction with the shortline CDCS. Download PDF

Long and narrow version of the Reading also incorporates the "Third Street industrial District" BIll had already completed.

Representing a segment of the former Nickel Plate route connecting Ft. Wayne and Cincinnati. This plan uses around-the-walls serial...

This is a partial triple-decker. With a relatively generous space for N scale, it uses a "mole" for staging and connections between...

Perhaps my most famous plan, designed not for any other modeler but based on the proportions of my son's bedroom (sorry, kid...) this N...

Norm had already built most of the benchwork when he asked me to design a representation of the famous junction between the RF&P (now...

This plan for the Union Pacific mainline through Las Vegas, NV was done to fit my daughter's bedroom and later published in Model...

This was an early one, designed for sectional O scale track, with a Maine Central flavor. Download PDF