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5,300 feet in a mile, which works out to around 60 feet of track in HO scale, if I did the conversion right. After a little math you’ll realize that modeling exact distance to scale really isn’t feasible.
At 87.1 You get 61.768 feet for 5,380′ or 1 mile
Okay, just so y’all know, a mile is 5280 feet NOT 5380 feet. Although I guess ya could round it up to 5300 feet. But with calculators and such why would you? I would have to agree with Gene Godbold, though, it doesn’t really seem feasible unless you have tons of space. Just sayin’.