I am curiuos to know which layout has the longest mainline length. I am sure it would have to be a club or a museam.
The Chesapeake Bay Railroaders have a 16 scale mile mainline run (HO). We’re located in Grafton VA. (not WVA [:)] )
George
I would guess Northlandz at www.northlandz.com they claim to have 8 real miles of track don’t know how much is mainline though.
Enjoy
Paul
gdowner-
I once lived in Grafton VA (actually right on the “border” with Yorktown) and frequented the hobby shop behind which your club got started. Are you still in that location on Dare Road (I think that was the name)? We moved away while the layout was still in benchwork stage, with a small bit of multi-deck built and some mainline laid. I’ve never seen anything beyond this, as I’ve not returned to visit it.
The La Mesa (California) Model Railroad Club is building a Tehachapi Pass layout that will feature 27 scale miles of mainline track when it’s completed. I think they’ve got 10 miles finished so far. It won’t be done for a long time though. It’s in the January '04 issue of Model Railroader.
hmm. i think maybe 2 scale miles.
The White Creek Railroad, in Cedar Springs, Michigan, has approximately 56 scale miles of mainline. It is the largest “operating” model railroad I have seen. Scale is 1.5" = 1’. Operating = time tables + waybill car routing.
Guess that makes our Troy (Ohio) N Scale Society’s N-scale layout kind of tame. We have 10.6 scale miles, most of it double tracked on two levels. There is only one area where it’s single tracked, and that’s going into some hidden track area. We’ve got several very long spurs that go to other “towns”, but most of our layout is mainline.
grrrr. My mainline is 3.5m!
sorry, m being metres not miles
Yes, we’re still in the same building (the hobby shop is long gone). Five years or so ago we took over the other half of the building and doubled the layout size. We continued with the two levels of the layout when we expanded. Here’s our web site: http://www.trainweb.org/cbw/ Stop by if you ever get back to the tidewater area.
George
I think that layout in California featured in the Jan. MR had 10 mi. or something like that. I don’t know what it would be in meters.
Shesh. My mainline is soo small, the conductor has the headlight shining into the caboose from the engine to do paperwork by.
However I celebrate big layouts with miles of track. Every hobby has to have a holy grail.
Lee