Pacific and Southwestern Layout In Garage

November 12, 2008

Alex share information about his HO Pacific and Southwestern layout.

“My layout is about 20×20 feet. It is located in my garage and stretches around the walls and has double decked layouts. The benchwork is from the idea of the great lionel strange of odel railroader. It is 1×4 in L shaped and meatal L brackets for support. I used 2” thick extruded pink foam for the base. Ho cork roadbed is used for subroad bed in certain areas and otherwise track is laid straight to the foam.

The track is atlas code 100 for main line and atlas code 83 for sidings and yard. Ihave 30″ radius on all my curves for eaiser transitions for my longer cars. My layout is the era of the late 70 to late 80.

Club members at my RR club have also put time and effort into helping me build this HO layout (which has been in progress for two years now). I use woodlen scenics ground foam for scenery and also real dirt. my son and myself have made all the trees from scratch. A really good friend and club memeber has built most of the power plant and also the mountain and bridge in the corner scene.

The yard is named after my grandfather. Most of the structures are named after either family members or friends. Another good friend has detailed all of my locomotives and even sctach built my santa fe sd-26.

I weather all my cars and they all have kadee metal wheels and kade couplers before the can be on the layout. I use dcc from digitrax. Another friend has done a great deal with helping in the wiring dept.

I still have a long ways to go and I truly believe the layout is never finished but that is the enjoyment of the hobby. The layout is mostly based on the union pacific but I do have interchange with the santa fe, southern pacific and the rio grande.

Most say I should model the csx because I live in Florida, but I grew up in California and this is from my childhood memories.

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