Winchester Paston & Portsmouth

Here is another home layout that I planned for a friend, based on the need to store N-trak modules and the desire to incorporate them into an operating pike. In this case, a relatively high track height was proposed in order to leave room for a functional work desk below the layout, even when modules were in place.

Tags: N-Trak, track plan

This layout design is built around a number of N-Trak modules, and was conceived on behalf of a friend in my N-Trak club. Two standard 4-ft. modules and one 6-ft. module are intended to plug in…

Tags: N-Trak, track plan

As another exercise of helping someone on a forum to visualize some of my suggestions for a layout plan, I created this sketch. The forum poster wanted to represent two mainlines, the RDG and PRR, as they snaked through the same coal-digging region.

Tags: track plan

This is a slight revision to a layout plan posted in a forum, for a 5′ x 9′ HO layout. It suggests reconfiguring the yard in order to gain a useable engine house spur in one corner, along with slightly longer yard tracks.

Tags: HO, track plan

My N-Trak module was designed initially as an exercise to see just how much could be made to happen within the standard 24″ by 48″ dimensions of a regular module, and adhering to all the N-Trak standards for curvature, tangents, etc. I came up with a design that actually worked pretty well to tell one more piece of the WP&P story, which is its interchange with the Norfolk & Western’s Shenandoah Valley main line.

Tags: N-Trak, track plan, WPP