Bob's Track Plans

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,...

A true "mushroom" plan made possible by Leo's desire to model the south (downstairs) and D&RGW in Colorado (upstairs). Download PDF