About
Welcome to Union Pacific’s Elmwood Subdivision, an n-scale model railroad.
This layout is a freelance layout. That means the towns, locations, industries, etc… are not necessarily based on the real world. Its more of mashup of different ideas I’ve seen on a variety of layouts. It gives me the ability to build what I want to build without having to worry if it “makes sense” or not.
The overall layout size and track plan is based on the Wisconsin Central layout, featured in the October 2005 Model Railroader.
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Layout Breakdown
Rail Served Industries:
- Superior Paper Mill
- Sunrise Feed Mill
- Interstate Fuel and Oil
- Dayton Machine Co.
- Consolidated Diary
Freight Services:
- Elmwood sees various kinds of rail traffic through town. You’ll see intermodals, auto-racks, mixed manifests and coal trains.
- BNSF has trackage rights on the route.
- Interchange with BNSF’s Katy Subdivision
Passenger Services:
- Amtrak’s City of New Orleans
- Metra Commuter Line
All information is subject to change as I develop the location, industries, towns, etc…
Track Plan:
Layout Information:
| Name: | UP’s Elmwood Subdivision |
| Time Period: | Present |
| Layout Size: | 11′x11′ |
| Scale: | N (1:160) |
| Layout Type: | Walk-in with peninsula |
| Track: | Micro Engineering C55 (wood ties) |
| Turnouts: | Atlas C55 #7 |
| Roadbed: | Masonite Spline topped with cork |
| Minimum Radius: | Mainline: 15″ |
| Maximum Grade: | 2.5% |
| Backdrop: | 1/8″ Masonite Hardboard |
| Control Systems: | Digitrax DCC for trains Digitrax BDL168 for block occupancy CML DAC10 for DCC Turnout control on mainline Tam Valley Quad-Servo for DCC turnout control on staging CML SIGM20 for Signal Logic Control |
| Signals: | Searchlight style signals made by Custom Signal Systems |
| Main Line Length: | xx – xxx Scale Miles |
| Layout Height: | xx” |



