The N-Scale T&SF Layout
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The gandy dancers were here on October 24, 2005
New Interactive Map!
Move your mouse across the layout and click on various locations to see photos of those areas!
| Scale | N (1:160) |
| Layout size | 30" x 19' with 30" x 8' extension (12" grid shown on track plan) |
| Benchwork | L girder over existing base cabinets |
| Track | Peco code 80 with insulfrog turnouts over Woodland Scenics foam roadbed and 1/2" plywood subroadbed |
| Layout height | 45" to 57" |
| Minimum radius | 12" on SP main, 9" on T&SF |
| Maximum grade | 2.5% on SP main, 3.5% on T&SF |
| Control | Digitrax DCC Empire Builder |
| Mainline length | 80' on SP, 82' on T&SF |
| Era | Early Fall, around 1910 |
| Scenery construction | Just starting... So far its hardshell (Woodland Scenics Plaster Cloth) over cardboard webbing and rigid insulation. Rocks are cast in molds, placed while wet and later painted with acrylics. Trees are a mixture of dried plant armitures with Woodland Scenics folaige and tall pines of rope fiber twisted in wire trunks, spray painted and flocked. Structures are mostly kitbashed from a variety of sources with several scratchbuilt. |
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