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This is the track plan for my 4x8’ N scale layout. This is my first N scale layout after converting from HO. The layout with feature UP (with some motive power still in SP livery) with some BNSF trains running through. It’ll also have some Amtrak and commuter (Metrolink) operations. The layout is ambiguously set somewhere between Southern and Central California in the present-day.
Minimum mainline curves are 18" radius; sidings are 11" radius.
I’m a pretty technologically-inclinded person but both the Atlas and XTrkCad programs drove me up the wall, so I drew my own dang diagram by hand, scanned it and added some enhancements via Photoshop. So there ![]()

[quote user=“Metro Red Line”]
This is the track plan for my 4x8’ N scale layout. This is my first N scale layout after converting from HO. The layout with feature UP (with some motive power still in SP livery) with some BNSF trains running through. It’ll also have some Amtrak and commuter (Metrolink) operations. The layout is ambiguously set somewhere between Southern and Central California in the present-day.
Minimum mainline curves are 18" radius; sidings are 11" radius.
I’m a pretty technologically-inclinded person but both the Atlas and XTrkCad programs drove me up the wall, so I drew my own dang diagram by hand, scanned it and added some enhancements via Photoshop. So there ![]()

Welcome any comments, critiques, tweaks, suggestions.
do you know how I can contact James Reynolds? Thanks
Welcome any comments, critiques, twe