James River Branch: Track Plans

Aberdeen & Rockfish

The Aberdeen & Rockfish is an adaptation of an N scale plan I helped develop for a modeler, and it has proved to be very popular. The optional double-sided backdrop allows the town—rendered mostly as flats—to be visually separated from the more rural side.

Notes on operation: This layout can support one continuously-running train, plus a switcher working the yard at the same time, assuming appropriate insulators are added as shown in the parts plan below. The engine house, lower left, can store the two engines on isolated tracks. DCC would make the operation of two trains much easier.

PLAN OVERVIEW
Overall size: 23" X 58"
Gridline spacing: 6"

LEGEND
Insulated joiners
A cut track
910 "special case" switches

TUTORIALS
Working with switches
Cutting sectional track
Burying switch machines

NOTES
*The 17 #902 straight sections and 17 of the 18 #912 curved sections required come with the switches.

TRACK PARTS LIST
904 R195 45º curve: 4
905 feeder: 4
906 uncoupler: 11
910 left switch: 9
911 right switch: 8
912 R490 13º curve: 1*
913 R220 45º curve: 4
917 220mm straight: 12

CUT TRACK PIECES
A: 902 cut to 1.9"
B: 902 cut to 2.3"
C: 917 cut to 5.25"
D: 902 cut to 1.2"
E: 902 cut to 4"

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