Bob's Track Plans

I apologize for some of the names I give these railroads, but my clients know they can change them at will. John wanted to run Nickel Plate and Rock Island but also his Big Boys so we went with a 30" minimum radius and an up-and-over to give him a decent double track main on his prebuilt 8'x14' table. The wooded hill down the middle can serve as a view block and I made sure most of the turnouts were close to the table edges, because a 4' reach into the interior would not be g

John had a prebuilt table, always a challenge, and wanted to evoke the parallel main lines of the NYC and NKP west of Buffalo. The tables could only accommodate a single 18" turnback curve on each end, so I placed the mainlines on two levels and added cutoffs to permit trains to move between the NYC and NKP tracks.

Now this was a challenge. Greg wanted to model Pullman Junction, a key spot on the South Side of Chicago where five different railroads...

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