Bob's Track Plans

Todd wanted to model the ATSF/UP line between Kansas City and Ft. Worth, including the towns of Arkansas City, Kansas, Red Rock, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Purcell, Oklahoma, Paul's Valley, Oklahoma, Wynnewood, Oklahoma, Big Canyon, Oklahoma, Ardmore, Oklahoma, and Gainesville, Texas. Most of the industries represent rail-served customers along the prototype line.

As soon as we finished Luke's original plan he moved. Not to worry! His new house had a slightly bigger room just right for the railroad,...

Bob wanted long trains, wide curves for his Big Boys and DD40Xes, and a Sherman Hill feel with the ability to break up the stark scenery...

Gene secured trackage rights to an adjoining room, leading us to do a new design. However, the two rooms were separated by a load-bearing...

Luke and I packed a lot of railroad into a modest room-sized space thanks to a helix used as "car sink" staging for both ends of the...

Gene has a modest room for representing the long UP-SP trains he wants to run. I used a favorite device of the helix-as-staging to...

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

The former Southern Pacific crossing of the Cascade mountains is one of the most famous stretches of mountain railroad in the world. ...

I developed two plans for the UP's route from Des Moines north to Nevada, IA. This is the HO version, published in the April 2017 issue...

Casey wanted to model a portion of the Union Pacific's "Spine Line" north of Des Moines. It fit nicely at one end of a 10' wide room,...