HO On A Door - Model Railroader Magazine

QUOTE: Originally posted by rogerhensley Here are three views of HO on a 30 inch wide door using small power and cars.

That looks intriguing myself. Would you mind posting an ariel view, or a sketch of the layout?

What radius curves and turnouts did you use? (I assume flex-track curves to some tight radius, or 15" curves in piece track)

Do you have any derailment or tip-over problems? (I assume you are to MSRP weights, and keep both the track guage tightly watched with no kinks and smooth joints, and the wheel-sets guage and coupler heights checked)

Note: A friend of mine down the road here built a model of an early inter-urban on a 30" door. It has lots of switching and even a divider down the middle for two scenes. (Ft. Wayne and New Haven, Indiana, (5 miles apart) had lots of folks needing a ride into work at one of the big plants in two industrial centers for the first part of last century - about 50,000 workers moving during rush hour, and those same plants required lots of rail pickups and deliveries.) His model is interesting for the scenery as well, as he was able to use good compression and flats against the divider to have a lot of building detail, and to give the illusion of a much larger layout. He also mounted the layout fairly high (58") so the viewer was looking into rather than down onto the layout, and he used some perspective changes, making the buildings, roads, people and cars a little smaller toward the center divider to make them look further away. (He ordered people, cars and other detail from widely different manufacturers, who each seem to use their own interpretation of scale, thus the average sized pedestrian from one vendor was smaller than the average sized pedestrian from another. He used this to built a slight perspective change.) He is now working on adding lots of lights and nightime operation so that he can compress 24-hours of operation into an operating session of about 3 to 4 hours.

-- Skipper Modeling the "Virgin Mary Penn RR" (Virgina, Maryland, Pennsylvania RR) based on the Western-Maryland, Cumberland & Maryland, B&O and PRR in the north West Virginia, west Maryland and southwestern Pennsylvania area.